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Two PalestinesWednesday, May 5, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The increasingly permanent divide between Hamas and Fatah, each of them beholden to feuding foreign patrons, reflects wider regional realities and is shifting the Israel-Palestinian framework in ways still unclear.Faith and Fate
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on the Jewish future by Britain's chief rabbi looks refreshingly outward—without, however, fully addressing the vexed issue of faith itself.Irresponsible Elites
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Seth J. Frantzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent poll shows that the average Israeli thinks there is "too much freedom of expression"; might these findings have something to do with the reckless civic example set by a coterie of anti-Zionist academics?Spirits on Parade
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by Baz Ratner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A museum exhibit focuses on Jewish beliefs about angels, demons, and spirits and the practical uses of magic in daily life.
Ubiquitous DissentWednesday, May 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The chairman of Peace Now in France, David Chelma, has been instrumental in a new Jewish effort to dissent from Israeli policies. The initiative is dubbed JCall, a term explicitly intended to evoke the Washington-based organization J Street. Over the past weekend, the group issued a web-based petition, entitled "European Jewish Call for Reason," denouncing Israeli settlements as "morally and politically wrong" and seeking to promote a movement in behalf of "the voice of reason." The 3,000-plus signers include such pro-Israel luminaries as the philosophers Bernard Henri-Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut. Israel's former ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, is also a backer. The campaigners...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Connie Bruck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli-American entertainment mogul, heavy Democratic donor, and fervid Clinton supporter is unhappy with administration policy.The Kaufmann Project
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A survey, with images, of the life, the work, and the manuscript collection of a prodigious 19th-century Jewish scholar.Another UN Human-Rights Farce
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Anne Applebaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Having pulled out all stops to keep Iran off the Human Rights Council, the U.S. and its allies are now faced with Teheran's appointment to the Commission on the Status of Women.Mearsheimer’s List
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The political scientist famous for warning about the cabal steering America away from its true national interests has carved out an exemption for certain "righteous Jews." Echoes of Father Coughlin?
The Organized CommunityThere are hundreds of Jewish organizations in the United States. Fifty-two national groups have qualified for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. But only a handful, whether secular, religious, or "fraternal," can be said to wield extensive influence either inside the Jewish community or beyond it. One of these is the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a quintessential establishment agency whose annual meeting, held last week in Washington, drew notables from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Founded in New York by affluent, acculturated "uptown" German Jews in 1906, the AJC sought initially to...