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Washington’s “Chief Rabbi”Friday, April 30, 2010 by Matt Schudel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Memorializing Gedaliah Anemer, a rabbinic authority and neighborly father figure in the Jewish life of the capital.What Would Herzl Do?
Friday, April 30, 2010 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alighting in modern Israel on his 150th birthday, the founding father reacts with amazement, consternation, and a dream.The Miracle-Worker of Mount Meron
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On Sunday, Lag B'Omer, masses of Israelis will flock to a Galilee hilltop to appeal for intercession at the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai.Fallout from the War on Jerusalem
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Jonathan Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In treating Jewish Jerusalem as just another illegal settlement, the administration has further dimmed the prospects for peace.Who Speaks for British Jewry
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Winston Pickett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on the tenure of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggests the need to abolish the position of chief rabbi; but most British Jews appear to disagree.Courage as a Jewish Religious Value
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Yitzchak Blau | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The virtue of courage is not always identified by that name in traditional sources, but those lacking it cannot ultimately stand for any other religious ideal.Is Anti-Semitism a Disease?
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Warren Boroson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
And if so, is America immune? An interview with Alvin Rosenfeld on the origins, manifestations, and treatment of a resurgent pathology.
Imagined CommunitiesThursday, April 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"The plain sense of things," Wallace Stevens wrote, "had itself to be imagined." Without imagination, there is no culture, language, or for that matter any recognizably human life. But what happens to the "plain sense of things" in the computer age when, with the emergence of virtual reality and virtual community, imagined life can take over, subsume, or become a substitute for recognizably human life? The question presses itself with special urgency in the case of Judaism and the Jews. A specific people, a specific place, a framework of mitzvot laying emphasis on what we eat, utter, and do: all of these...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by Benjamin Birnbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A tale of bias and bigotry in the human-rights organization that is a major force in international politics.An Unwelcoming Place
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the spread of anti-Semitic violence and the rise of a xenophobic right, is it not time for the Jews of Austria and Hungary to reassess their European future?