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LeviticusFriday, May 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Tomorrow, synagogue-goers will hear the final yearly readings from the biblical Book of Leviticus (in Hebrew, Vayikra). As every year, they will no doubt reflect on what is in some ways the most challenging and mind-bending volume of the Torah. The books flanking Leviticus on either side easily comport with what we usually think of as "religious literature." The two before it, Genesis and Exodus, tell stories of creation, family and nation-building, enslavement, exodus, and revelation. Of the two after it, Numbers offers morality tales of the wilderness and Deuteronomy gives us poetry, prophecy, and detailed ethical-legal teachings. By contrast, Leviticus...
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a Tikvah-sponsored summer program in Israel, a select group of students, educators, and intellectuals will revisit the founding ideas behind a state at once Jewish and democratic.When Truman Wavered
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the months and days leading up to May 14, 1948, a fierce internal battle tested and all but swayed the President's support for a Jewish state.The Enemy of My Enemy is Still My Enemy
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Scott Jaschik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The re-education of a Lebanese professor who made the mistake of collaborating on a pro-Palestinian book with two pro-Palestinian Israeli academics.Linked In?
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The idea that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is at the root of Middle East turmoil is a myth that has bamboozled Western policymakers, and crippled American foreign policy, for decades.My Post-Zionist Encounter
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A conversation with a disgruntled Israeli reservist on his way to defend his country in 1982.Being Jewish
Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thirty-five American Jews, including Rebecca Goldstein, Joseph Lieberman, Leon Wieseltier, and Ruth Wisse, offer brief answers to the questions of what it means to be a Jew today and what Jews bring to the world.Our Man in Tel Aviv
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Michael Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Daniel Silva's bestselling spy novels, with their semi-reluctant warrior-hero, probe the intersection between Israel and the outside world.
Tradition!Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This week, the Schechter Institute, the chief educational institution of the Conservative movement in Israel, celebrated its 25th anniversary with the opening of two new buildings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Following decades of effort, the occasion marks a genuine milestone for the Masorti movement (to use its Hebrew name), a movement still struggling to establish a presence in Israel in the teeth of institutional opposition and public indifference. Unlike Orthodoxy and Reform, already established as ideological movements in 19th-century Europe, Conservative Judaism, though tracing some of its roots to the 1850s, took shape in early-20th-century America, to become, in the...
Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Beersheba, a university center headed by David Roskies works to retrieve a discarded part of Israeli cultural identity.