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Muslim Anti-SemitismFriday, April 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The prevalence of deep anti-Semitism in many parts of the Muslim world is one of today's scarier phenomena. To some, it can also seem mysterious. To be sure, Jews regularly suffered persecution under the Crescent as they did under the Cross, but not with the same sustained ferocity. Nor did Islam ever bring forth a racially-infused hatred of Jews like that of the Spanish Church—or, in our own times, the Nazis. Until, that is, the Nazis themselves got into the act. Since then, and to an extent previously unparalleled in Muslim history, Jews and Judaism have been demonized beyond all proportion...
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, Pastor Rick Warren reads from Genesis 12 and Israel's Declaration of Independence.
What the Archaeologist KnewThursday, April 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The ghosts of Qumran have conjured up two distinct communities of modern scholars: the archaeologists who dig in the caves and discover the libraries, and the textual scholars who read and interpret the Dead Sea Scrolls in cavernous libraries of their own. Not many have been able to move with assurance among both. One of them was Hanan Eshel, who died earlier this month at age fifty-two. The author of more than 200 articles and several books aimed at both scholars and the wider public, Eshel synthesized a broad knowledge of classical Jewish texts with rich archaeological experience and a deep...
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Eric K. Clemons and Elizabeth T. Gray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pressuring Israel to stop building in East Jerusalem will not achieve any of its desired objectives.In Budapest, with Ghosts
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Haviv Rettig Gur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group looking for "a small parcel of Jewish history" finds instead that "Jewish history had come looking for us."Welcoming Immigrants
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Alexander Yakobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alongside the Law of Return, Israel's national interest requires a well-regulated immigration and naturalization process.Solving Israel’s Constitutional Dilemma
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Michael Wyschogrod | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How strange is it to imagine reconciling the modern concept of a state with a religious concept of legitimacy more than three millennia old?
Polling American JewsWednesday, April 21, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
What does the predominantly liberal Asian-American community think of President Barack Obama's policies toward China, particularly on the issue of Tibet? Where do America's 2.35 million Muslims stand on Washington's conduct of the war in Afghanistan-Pakistan? It's hard to say. Yet minute shifts in American Jewish public opinion are carefully tracked. Why? Because, says the Hebrew University political scientist Tamir Sheafer, although comprising at most three percent of the population, America's Jews—well-educated, relatively affluent, and "over-represented" in medicine, science, law, media, entertainment, and politics—are perceived to be an important, well-organized, and powerful interest group. They are major financial contributors to political...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Geoffrey Alderman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The community has resisted attempts to study its voting patterns, but doing so might prove electorally fruitful.Pioneer of Hebrew Dance
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by Roni Dori | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The centenarian Yardena Cohen reflects on a lifetime of faith and art.