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Retrieving American Jewish Fiction: Myron BrinigFriday, July 2, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"For Jews," the historian Jerry Z. Muller said recently, "Jewish economic success has long been a source of both pride and embarrassment." Very few Jewish writers have risen to even this level of ambivalence. The ground note of Jewish fiction has been hostility to business—the prooftext is The Rise of David Levinsky—and the story of Jewish success in establishing banks, department stores, and clothing lines has fallen to strangers (including anti-Semites) to tell.
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Walter Laqueur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How far will European societies go in accommodating a fast-growing minority that to a considerable extent is opposed to them?
TypographyThursday, July 1, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the Book of Genesis, the Hebrew language is the very stuff of creation. The Talmud tells us (Menahot 29b) that Rabbi Akiva would derive new laws from the "crowns" of Hebrew letters. In the Kabbalah, the shape of the letters is said to reflect the shape of God's own inner being. What type of type can do justice to any of this?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.Fanatics Have No Fun
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Asef Bayat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)Making Music to His Name
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed?From Ally to Enemy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Michael Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Turkey, the only successful Muslim country in the Middle East, is today an Islamic republic in all but name.Call it Fascism
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Richard Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gaza is a brutal place with a totalitarian government steeped in a cult of violence and death. Why does it receive support from "useful idiots" in the West?The Politics of Babel
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the very core of the Hebrew Bible lies an insistence on the centrality of the ethnic-cultural state.