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Qaddafi’s CaptiveThursday, February 17, 2011 by Yoav Fromer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli artist sent to photograph Libya's once-thriving Jewish community ended up arrested, tortured, and spending five harrowing months in jail.Kosher Game
Thursday, February 17, 2011 by Aaron Kagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Your grandmother may not have used gazelle in her stuffed cabbage, but several species of game are kosher and increasingly available from adventuresome farmers.
The Riddle of the SatmarThursday, February 17, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prospect terrifying to secular Israelis and Zionists worldwide has been the rapid growth of the Jewish state's ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Given the stranglehold of haredi political parties on recent coalition governments, and the encroachments by non-Zionist haredi clerics upon Israel's chief rabbinate, once religiously moderate and firmly Zionist, the fear is not entirely irrational.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Eve Grubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"It is hard to be a Jewish poet," writes Yehoshua November, whose time in yeshiva nevertheless provided a spiritual foundation for his elegantly crafted English verse.King Solomon’s Vanishing Temple
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Yitzhak Reiter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What do Palestinian activists hope to achieve by denying history and attempting to discredit the Jewish connection to Jerusalem?
The Tribes SpeakWednesday, February 16, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Unrest is spreading in the Middle East, but everywhere it displays a unique character. Take Jordan. In an unprecedented public letter to King Abdullah II, thirty-six of the country's tribal leaders have warned that "Jordan will sooner or later be the target of an uprising similar to the ones in Tunisia and Egypt."
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why Ayman Nour, a prominent Egyptian democrat who has suffered for his principles, pays lip service to the Israel-hatred that permeates his country's political discourse.Tale of a Tub
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Frank D. Roylance | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Beneath an historic Baltimore synagogue, archeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest ritual-bath complex in the United States.Progressives’ Progress
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The UK's Liberal Jewish Synagogue, celebrating its centenary this year, has come a long way from its original anti-Zionism while staying true to its early feminist roots.The Public Man
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Cynthia Ozick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Saul Bellow's letters offer a clue to the late novelist's unique ability to escape the eclipse of fame and forgetting.