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Allon’s LegacyWednesday, March 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It was fitting that Benny Begin, son of the late Likud-party prime minister Menachem Begin, should have been the cabinet minister representing Israel's government at the annual memorial service on Monday for Labor-party icon Yigal Allon. On the Zionist political spectrum, the Begins are stalwarts of the Right, whereas Allon was decidedly a man of the Left. Yet the inheritors of their respective legacies share a sense of clarity about Jewish rights in Israel, a desire for genuine accommodation with the Arabs, and an emphatic insistence on defensible borders. Allon was born in 1918 in the Lower Galilee and died...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Saeed Ghasemzadeh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The U.S., Iran, Israel, and the international community: a comprehensive analysis by a pro-democracy Iranian.The Montefiore Saga
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exceptionally fine book brings to life a great 19th-century Jewish hero and apostle of liberal imperialism.The Man in the Shadows
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Greer Fay Cashman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In death as in life, David Kimche—master spy and deputy director of the Mossad, diplomat and advocate of dialogue with Hamas—keeps his counsel.Jews and God
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why are so many American Jews non-believers? And does it matter?Engagement, or Appeasement?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Elliott Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
None of the administration's overtures to Damascus has changed Syrian policy in the least, and the cost has been high.
Marranos in Reverse?Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At first blush, the blog reads like any modish commentary on the weekly Torah portion, complete with knowing references to the Mishnah and the building of the Tabernacle in the desert. Only upon closer examination does it become evident that the discussion of the tabernacle as a medium for drawing nearer to God is a precursor to the claim that, nowadays, God can be worshipped "directly." The blogger is a follower of "Yeshua"—a Jewish believer in Jesus. In Jewish eyes they are apostates, but a group of "Messianic Jews" living in Israel say they follow authentic Jewish lives in the footsteps...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Yoel Marcus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Iran is different from other nuclear powers, and in dealing with it Israel cannot abandon the military option.The Hasid Who Doesn’t Believe in God
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In London, a pseudonymous ultra-Orthodox blogger pours out his heart.Middle East 2.0
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Saudi foreign minister has explicated his view of the new regional state of play, in which Israel is no longer the main enemy.