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A Monarch DethronedThursday, January 20, 2011 by Joshua Muravchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A finely wrought biography of Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi explores the ironies that led to the replacement of a moderate reformer by a brutal dictatorship.
A Zionist Who’s WhoThursday, January 20, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The state of Israel, like the Zionist movement in all its forms—political, cultural, artistic, religious—was an astounding collective creation. The famous names are known, as are the slightly less famous. But what about all the others?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Jeffrey Carr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What's missing from the New York Times story naming the U.S. and Israel as co-developers of the Stuxnet worm? The evidence. Sun Sets on “Israel Horizons”
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Gary Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Meretz USA has pulled the plug on a magazine that for more than a half-century was the English voice of left-wing Zionism.Yitro: The Commandments and the Man
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
There's something confounding about the way the Torah presents the delivery of the Ten Commandments in this week's reading. The revelation at Sinai, the centerpiece of God's message and perhaps the most influential single text ever given to mankind, appears against the backdrop of two poignantly human stories that consistently undercut the mythic stature of Moses. Bald Jewish Women
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Three early-19th-century sources cite an edict demanding that married Jewish women shave their heads. Or was the report just a misunderstanding?
From New Year to Arbor DayWednesday, January 19, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holiday of Tu Bishvat ("the fifteenth of Shvat") falls this year on Thursday, January 20. What are its origins, and when and why did it become incorporated into the calendar as the Jewish "Arbor Day"?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as one exults in the power of the disenfranchised to overthrow a cruel dictator, the implications of the Tunisian upheaval are hardly all sunny.A Nice Little Family
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi is a sweeping historical novel of East European Jewry, and an eerie foretelling of that world's eventual fate.Combat Manual
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Training its soldiers in the new style of urban warfare, the Israeli army uses advanced technology to spare civilians and sacred buildings, both often put deliberately in harm's way.