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Inventing Our LifeTuesday, August 3, 2010 by Toby Perl Freilich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A documentary film examines the kibbutz movement at one-hundred, from its rocky past to its uncertain present and surprisingly hopeful future. (Video; a five-part series)
Violent DiversionsTuesday, August 3, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Time and again, troubles within the Arab world have increased the chances of aggression against Israel. Case in point: Hizballah's assassination of Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, the country's chief Sunni figure, on February 14, 2005, resulted in a period of severe political pressure on the terrorist Shi'ite movement and its Syrian ally, presumed complicit in the murder. Only when Hizballah sent its gunmen across the border into Israel on July 12, 2006, seizing two Israeli soldiers and sparking a 34-day conflagration, was world attention diverted from the crime and could Hizballah buy the time it needed to solidify its position...
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Barbara C. Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The millennia-old heritage of the Jews of India has been partially preserved by the 4,000-strong Cochin community now living in Israel.Of Rabbis and Robots
Monday, August 2, 2010 by David Gelernter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One of these years, there will be true, human-like robots; will we then be faced with a "machine rights" movement—and how then should we respond?
Out of the Well of the PastMonday, August 2, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jewish history was once regularly portrayed as a march from pre-modern stasis to modern revolution and change. This picture held its attractions, offering clearly marked battle lines for later proponents on either side of the ongoing ideological struggles between traditionalists and modernizers. By now, however, we have been well instructed in the deceptive simplicity of all such efforts to impress order on the relentless flux of history, which so often dissolves the closer we look at it.
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Mudar Zahran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In relentlessly focusing their hostility on the Jewish state, the media turn a blind eye to the decades-long oppression and persecution of Palestinians at the hands of their fellow Arabs.Burying History
Monday, August 2, 2010 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By allowing the Muslim Waqf to carry out unsupervised excavations on the Temple Mount, Israeli authorities have enabled the destruction of Jewish archeological treasures.More is More
Monday, August 2, 2010 by James Walton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In The Finkler Question, the British novelist Howard Jacobson lets rip with exhilaratingly over-the-top portraits of, among other types, a group calling itself "Ashamed Jews."Questions for the “New York Times”
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Andrea Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will the paper's new public editor address the mountain of complaints about its distorted coverage of Israel and the Middle East?Uncovering Shiloh
Friday, July 30, 2010 by Gil Ronen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The city that was ancient Israel's capital for 400 years is the object of ongoing excavations.