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Bad Education
Friday, May 10, 2013 by Vigen Guroian | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"I try to explain to my pupils that envy is despicable," wrote Martin Buber, "and at once I feel the secret resistance of those who are poorer than their comrades."
High Concept in Dialogue With Tradition High Concept in Dialogue With Tradition
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Diane Cole | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The artifacts of Jewish cultural history have never looked so freshly inviting or unexpectedly contemporary as in a provocative new exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum.
Hawking of Arabia
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"Would Professor Hawking ever survive in any Arab country or under the Palestinian autocracy he shamefully defends?"
Whitewashing White Supremacy
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Delegates at the World Jewish Congress expected Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, to commit to eliminating anti-Semitism from public life. They were disappointed.
The Pleasures of Anti-Semitism
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Eve Garrard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

"You can’t miss the relish with which some people compare Jews to the Nazis, or the fake sorrow with which they bemoan the supposed fact that Jews have brought hatred on themselves."
Prolonging the Inevitable
Thursday, May 9, 2013 by Natan Slifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Private donations to the haredi kollel system in Israel help to ensure that haredi men never acquire the skills they will need when they are forced to enter the workforce.