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On the Right of ReturnWednesday, September 8, 2010 by Yaffa Zilbershats and Nimra Goren-Amitai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nothing in international law supports the legal right of Palestinian refugees to return to the state of Israel; the issue can be resolved only through political negotiation. (Executive summary, PDF)Harsh Judgment, Soft Judgment
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 by Naomi Grunhaus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, we are judged as individuals; on the second day, as part of a group.Access
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yad Vashem has been given access to Poland's World War II-era archives, including files produced by Nazi authorities that will aid in identifying Holocaust victims.A Good Nation is Hard to Find
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 by Sam Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new critique of chosenness ignores all the ways in which two nations that claim exceptionalismRededication
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The reopening of the
A Tale of Two LobbiesWednesday, September 8, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The problem of the Arab-Israel conflict begins with the term itself, which misrepresents the unilateral Arab war against Israel as a bilateral dispute. Unilateral aggression is not unheard of—when did Poland ever aggress against Germany or Russia?—but nothing in United Nations history compares in intensity or fixity with Arab belligerence toward Israel, a UN member state.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Aymenn Jawad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The situation in Yemen, scene of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, is of far greater consequence than the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and requires urgent attention.
CreationsTuesday, September 7, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the year, marks the creation of the world. Or does it? The Torah refers to Rosh Hashanah, although not by that name, as the first day of "the seventh month" (Leviticus 23:24)—the seventh, that is, if you're counting from Nisan, the month of Passover. That month is designated as the beginning of the year in the first act of the Exodus: "This month will mark for you the first of the months; it will be, for you, the first month of the year" (Exodus 12:2). Like revolutionaries everywhere, the Israelites wanted a new calendar.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by ToldotYisrael | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Six men who flouted a 1930 British law and blew the shofar at the Western Wall tell their story. (Video)Person of the Year
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Amotz Asa-El | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Humbly born, the biologist Ada Yonat, Nobel laureate, is a living reminder of all the things that put to shame the international effort to deface the Jewish state.