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FunnymanThursday, July 8, 2010 by John Seven | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After creating Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster fashioned a very different superhero—perhaps the most straightforward expression of Jewishness to have appeared in comics.
Waiting for the (Political) MessiahThursday, July 8, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israelis are not scheduled to go to the polls until October 2013, but no one would be astonished if some political upheaval forced earlier elections. Several high-profile contenders are already letting it be known that they could be enticed to provide the deliverance Israelis habitually crave, either by starting new parties or by taking leadership roles in existing ones. The saviors waiting in the wings include the photogenic television personality Yair Lapid, who promises to stand up to the "settlers" and the "ultra-Orthodox." Then there is the magnetic Aryeh Deri, once the top vote-getter of the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party,...
Thursday, July 8, 2010 by Matt Buhrman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ottumwa's B'nai Jacob congregation is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places; nowadays, fewer than ten worshippers muster for Sabbath services. (With video)
Tradition and Its DiscontentsWednesday, July 7, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Judaism teaches the unity of body and soul. The soul has received most of the ink, but in recent decades historians have made an effort to give the body its say by uncovering and interpreting the material circumstances that, together with the learning and the spirituality, have comprised the weave of Jewish life. Prominent among these historians is the Hebrew University's Shaul Stampfer, whose new book, Families, Rabbis, and Education, explores the diverse currents coursing through the nineteenth-century Jewish heartlands of Eastern Europe.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Douglas Murray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Five years ago today, three British-born Muslim suicide bombers murdered fifty-two people in London. Since then, Britain's authorities have engaged extremists, sidelined progressive Muslims, and failed to assert mainstream values.Oldest Hatred
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Three recent works on anti-Semitism underscore not that too much is being written about the phenomenon but that it remains little understood and habitually, perhaps willfully, misdefined.Who’s Afraid of the Palestinians?
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Egyptians, for one. Also, the Jordanians.Contempt of Justice
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Robin Shepherd | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A bigoted verdict in Great Britain suggests that the current hysterical campaign against Israel is resulting not only in gross injustice to that democratic nation but in the undermining of democracy at home.Lonely, Lonely, Lonely is the Lord of Hosts
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Yael Goldstein Love | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a rural utopian community, the only laws are those arising out of a spirit of loving responsibility. To whom? (A short story.)Fayyadism: Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Nathan Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Palestinian prime minister may be a good person, but whatever his Western admirers may claim, his policies are not building a Palestinian state.