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Hilltop ConversionTuesday, November 9, 2010 by Marla Brown Fogelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a remote southern Italian town in the 1930s, a group of Catholics who had never before met any Jews began practicing their own idiosyncratic brand of Judaism. Why?A Prosaic Talmud
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 by Leon Wieseltier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Adin Steinsaltz's Talmud translation, of which the Hebrew version is now complete, is a massive endeavor—but, according to this 1989 review of the English volumes, lacking a critical spirit.
Who’s “Right” in Israel, and Who Isn’tTuesday, November 9, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last month, two dozen followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane marched on the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, stronghold of the extremist Islamic Movement. They were making the point that Jews have the right to go anywhere in Israel. In the predictable mayhem that ensued, a dozen police were injured and ten Arab rioters were arrested. Sympathetic reports about the "mounting anger of Israel's Arab minority" made the world press, as did portrayals of the Kahanists as Israeli "right-wing activists" and "nationalists." But is that what they are?
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 by Ibn Warraq | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
All honor to the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti, who has looked beyond the brutal statistics into the lives of the "ordinary" Israelis who have perished in terror attacks.Entebbe Revealed
Monday, November 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In recently released transcripts from July 1976, Israel's cabinet agonizes over what would become, perhaps, "the most important counterterrorism military mission ever."
The Non-ZionistMonday, November 8, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The YIVO Institute in New York recently marked the 150th birthday of perhaps the most eminent among its founders: the historian and nationalist ideologue Simon Dubnow (1860-1941). Massively influential in its time, Dubnow's historical writing has been overshadowed by the work of later generations of scholars. In the meantime, the cause he championed—Diaspora Jewish nationalism—was throttled by the Holocaust. Yet the man and his ideas may be ripe for rediscovery.
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Paul Vitello | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Historians are undermining Italy's image as a late and reluctant collaborator with Nazi race laws, even while affirming that the country did save the lives of many Jews.The New Jewish Quarter of Damascus
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Ksenia Svetlova | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A neighborhood without Jews is coming back to life as a tourist destination, while questions of property rights remain unanswered.From Rashi to Face Cream
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new French biography traces cosmetics maven Helena (Chaja) Rubinstein's complex relationship to her Judaism.Voice of the East
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Philip Hollander | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For Israel's Ashkenazi public, Mizrahi music, a distinctly local creation, went virtually unheard for decades; all that has changed.