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Partition and ReturnTuesday, September 21, 2010 by William Rubinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The partition of the Palestine Mandate in 1947-48 is far from unique in modern historyWhen MI6 Blew Up Refugee Ships
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book reveals how Great Britain used explosives to try to stop ships carrying Holocaust survivors to the Holy Land.The Man Who Sneaked into Auschwitz
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Seventy years ago, a Polish army captain voluntarily entered Auschwitz in order to discover the truth about the camp. (With audio.)The Master of Species
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Jerusalem, an expert in both halakhah and botany pronounces judgment on purchases of the plants involved in the observance of Sukkot.Ode to Cholent
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine sings of the "food of heaven."
Be JoyfulTuesday, September 21, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Alongside the more colorful and distinctive rituals of the Sukkot festival—the taking-up of lulav and etrog, the sukkah itself—there is another command, less concrete and more penetrating: "And you will rejoice." Indeed, the passage in Deuteronomy (16: 14-15) concludes, v'hayita akh sameah, translatable as "you will be altogether joyful," or even "you will be only joyful."
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Jonathan Wittenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a physical manifestation of the bonds of community and tradition, the sukkah is at once the weakest and the strongest thing that Jews build. (PDF.) “Your wounded brother, Yaakov”
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Noah Kosharek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recently discovered letter sheds new light on Jaffa's 1921 anti-Jewish pogroms.Yom Kippur at Sea
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year.J Street Blues
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Adam Kredo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is an organization supposedly focused on Israel taking stances on abortion and other issues in American domestic politics?