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Reclaiming a Cochin SynagogueTuesday, May 25, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A massive restoration project will refurbish one of the oldest and most beautiful houses of worship in the heart of what was once Jewish India.
Israel’s Home FrontTuesday, May 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At precisely 11 A.M. tomorrow, May 26, the sirens of war will echo throughout Israel. The army is conducting its annual week-long series of home-front drills to prepare the police, hospitals, emergency services, volunteer agencies, and civilians to cope with the possibility of an unprecedented onslaught of rockets or missiles laden with high explosives or chemical warheads. Authorities are presenting the exercise as routine. Although civilians who can do so have been instructed to enter a protected area like a communal bomb shelter or private reinforced-concrete room, those for whom participation in the drill would cause "unreasonable disruption" have been advised...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Avner Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the judgment of the leading historian of Israel's nuclear program, nothing supports the allegation that Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the mid-1970s.Eichmann at Fifty
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Shimon Samuels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A half-century after Israel captured and tried the draftsman of the Holocaust, another gray bureaucrat, in Tehran, plots with genocidal intent.Address to the Graduating Jewish Cadets, West Point
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
War is no joke, and radical innocence is no match for radical evil.The Crown of Aleppo
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Tamar Yellin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The history of the oldest Hebrew Bible codex reflects the history of the Jews: exile, upheaval, struggle, and rebirth.Call It Awake
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Charles McGrath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new posthumous novel has emerged out of the papers of Henry Roth, author of the 1934 American classic, Call It Sleep.Through a Canvas Darkly
Monday, May 24, 2010 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Cracking the riddle of a forged copy of a self-portrait by the 19th-century Dutch Jewish artist Jozef Israels.
Talmud for Everyone?Monday, May 24, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Later this year, a milestone in contemporary Jewish learning will be reached with the completion of the Steinsaltz translation of the Talmud from its rabbinic Hebrew-and-Aramaic original into modern Hebrew. First begun in 1965, this project has had a transforming effect on non-Orthodox Israeli culture. The work is the brainchild of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Born in 1937 to secular parents who nevertheless saw to his education in Jewish classics, he studied math, physics, chemistry, and sociology before turning to religion, publishing books on the Bible and Jewish mysticism, and creating a network of high schools offering a rare blend of Talmud,...
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?