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The BeshtFriday, May 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last week's Shavuot holiday marked the 250th yahrzeit of Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidism, known to history as the Baal Shem Tov or, abbreviated, the Besht. His death was only the beginning; the legend of the Besht, and the many interpretations of his sayings and deeds, gave birth to one of the most dynamic and consequential movements in Jewish history.
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The great challenge of the moment is posed by a generation of young American Jewish intellectuals and communal leaders without any instinctive bond to Israel.Pluralism, Personal Religion, and Tradition
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Gidon Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There is more room for individualism within halachic Judaism than some realize—and less than others assert.Lament of an Intermarried Wife
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
She left the Orthodoxy she was born into; he, a convert, embraced it.“Herr Professor-Doktor” Nikolaus Pevsner
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The author of a monumental, multi-volume survey of British architecture was born a Jew, converted to Christianity, and in the early 1930's sympathized with aspects of Nazism.Lifeline
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On display in Jerusalem are the young Avigdor Arikha's illustrations to a story by S.Y. Agnon in one the most beautiful Hebrew books ever published.
It’s MagicThursday, May 27, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Spirituality," a key phrase of our time, suggests a yearning for contact with an ungraspable realm beyond earthly experience. Yet for most of history, the spiritual realm was deemed eminently graspable indeed—as is evidenced by a fascinating exhibit now in Jerusalem.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by H. Varulkar and N. Mozes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Damascus, with the acquiescence of the Arab world, is once again the suzerain over Lebanon.Aryans of the World Unite?
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What, if anything, connects the words "Iran" and "Aryan" with Aryanism?Enough about Israel Already
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the wildly disproportionate obsession with the Jewish state by Western media in general and, at the moment, by Foreign Policy magazine in particular.