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Eastern Europe, OnlineFriday, June 11, 2010 by Shoshana Olidort | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A multi-volume YIVO encyclopedia opens a free window onto 1,000 years of Jewish life.What Iran Gains
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest UN Security Council sanctions are late, weak, and likely to ease Teheran's diplomatic isolation.The Enablers
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can you turn a tiger (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Ahmadinejad) into a kitten by stroking it? Those who argue yes in all cases have much blood on their hands.From Junior Cookbooks to Junior Congregations
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among techniques for transmitting Jewish culture in America, one, predicated on responsibility, is still going strong.Blogg’s Hebrew Words
Thursday, June 10, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1831, a German Jewish scholar publishes a curious history of the Hebrew language.
The RebbeThursday, June 10, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The story of Lubavitcher Hasidism in our time is nothing short of astounding. Here is an ultra-Orthodox sect, deployed all over the world, exuberantly engaged with non-observant Jews and with non-Jews, availing itself of every imaginable form of contemporary communications technology. What was, for generations, the most intellectual and scholastic-minded hasidic dynasty—its other name, Chabad, is an acronym for "Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge"—has become an ecstatic mass movement. At the heart of it all is the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), who died childless—and whom some substantial number of his followers forthrightly regard as the messiah.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A statement and thirty-one responses on the crisis in Washington-Jerusalem relations and the role of American Jewry. (Symposium)A Bridge Too Short
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Taking a closer look at Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird, a self-declared builder of bridges between Jews and Arabs.
Christianity in the Middle EastWednesday, June 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cyprus on Sunday was marred by events that cast their own, baleful light on the purpose of his mission: to unveil a Vatican position paper on the deteriorating condition of Christianity in the Middle East. Hours before his arrival, one of the document's authors, Bishop Luigi Padovese, the apostolic vicar of Anatolia, was murdered by his "mentally unstable" driver. Padovese had only recently met with Turkish authorities to discuss the problems of that country's tiny Christian minority—and had previously extended Christian forgiveness to a Muslim youth who in 2006 murdered a Catholic priest. Three more...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Eric Heinze | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thanks to the failure to apply international norms universally, public perceptions are grossly out of touch with the globe's worst human-rights abuses.