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The Unlovable Avigdor LiebermanWednesday, October 6, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Avigdor Lieberman's September 28 speech at the UN General Assembly—delivered in English and broadcast live by Al-Jazeera—was not well received at home. Nahum Barnea, the doyen of Israeli left-wing columnists, dismissed his country's foreign minister as a "clown." The editors of Haaretz urged his prompt resignation.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by James M. O’Neil | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A New Jersey Jewish newspaper ran into fierce criticism when it decided to publish same-sex marriage announcements, and fiercer criticism when it decided to stop.Trial Run
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Nathan Burstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
More than six decades after its intended release, a film documenting the 10-month trial at Nuremberg of many of the Nazi regime's most notorious criminals is now appearing in American theaters.Self-Made Men
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The names of many Jewish immigrants were changed upon coming to America; contrary to legend, however, they were changed by the immigrants themselves. Nor is this the only legend of its kind in Jewish history.Western Wall Revised
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A plan to improve the layout of the Western Wall plaza by adding an access tunnel, a visitors' center, and a movable divider between the men's and women's sections has already provoked an outcry.Noah: The Too-Tall Tower
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The builders of the Tower of Babel had their work cut out for them. The alluvial plain of Mesopotamia (formed by the Flood) had no quarries that would yield monumental stone. Instead, they molded and fired bricks and substituted raw bitumen for mortar. Through the power of technological ingenuity, they freed themselves from their environmental constraints. By ordinary standards, and notwithstanding their exaggerated hopes for the height of their planned tower with its "head in the heavens," they would seem to have been in line for applause and congratulations.
Feminism and Jewish ArtTuesday, October 5, 2010 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
An exhibit now on view at New York's Jewish Museum purports to chart the course of a cultural revision—specifically, the rise of women artists, or, more specifically, the rise of Jewish women artists, or, more specifically still, the rise in the numbers of such artists exhibited at the Jewish Museum over the past 50 years. It turns out that since 1947, over 550 women artists have shown at this one venue in Manhattan. One wonders if MOMA can match those numbers.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The mere possession of a nuclear weapon by Iran would restore Jews to a condition in which their futures once again depended primarily on the choices made by their enemies.Clergy Monopoly
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Barak D. Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Centralized searches by American denominations to fill the position of rabbi are not only illogical, they're illegal.Forbidden Fruit
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Morris M. Faierstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apple, etrog, fig, grape? A Yiddish biblical commentary asks which fruit Eve really ate. (From the forthcoming Fall issue.)