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Arnold Beichman 1913-2010Thursday, February 18, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The exemplary life of an exemplary man of the century.How German Built Hebrew
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by DPA | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The enduring linguistic influence of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany for the Holy Land.
Libels and Politics
Here we go again. Baroness Jenny Tonge of Britian's Liberal Democratic party called recently for a serious investigation of charges that Israeli rescue teams were in Haiti to harvest organs. In the ensuing firestorm, she has been removed from her role as "health spokesman" for her party in the House of Lords. What is going on here? It is one thing for Hamas to fling about heinous lies. Among Western elites, "Israel-bashing" seems too thin an explanation for the mounting eruptions of lunatic forms of anti-Semitism, unhinged from even the most severe criticisms reasonable people might make of Israeli policies. Are we...
Al-Durra: The Affair that Never EndsThursday, February 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Here we go again. Baroness Jenny Tonge of Britian's Liberal Democratic party called recently for a serious investigation of charges that Israeli rescue teams were in Haiti to harvest organs. In the ensuing firestorm, she has been removed from her role as "health spokesman" for her party in the House of Lords. What is going on here? It is one thing for Hamas to fling about heinous lies. Among Western elites, "Israel-bashing" seems too thin an explanation for the mounting eruptions of lunatic forms of anti-Semitism, unhinged from even the most severe criticisms reasonable people might make of Israeli policies. Are we...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Benjamin Joffe-Walt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new Italian documentary joins several recent others on an alleged Israeli shooting that has entered into mythology.Breakthrough?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Stephen Tignor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a political victory of sorts, an Israeli player has been allowed to participate in a Dubai tennis tournament; off-site, her movements are restricted to a sealed-off floor in a hotel.
Judaica by Design
"Art for art's sake"—the idea that works of art must be judged solely on their own terms, apart from any considerations of moral, religious, or civic value—has by now become largely devoid of meaning, especially as so many artists openly hitch their work to one or another of today's political wagons. But with the lapsing of the polarities to which the phrase once gave rise, in particular those between art and religion, it has also become possible for newer generations of artists to turn their talents unapologetically to religious motifs. The results, as several recent exhibits suggest, are both intriguing and markedly uneven. Reinventing Ritual, a show from last fall at the...
Saudia Arabia by the NumbersWednesday, February 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Art for art's sake"—the idea that works of art must be judged solely on their own terms, apart from any considerations of moral, religious, or civic value—has by now become largely devoid of meaning, especially as so many artists openly hitch their work to one or another of today's political wagons. But with the lapsing of the polarities to which the phrase once gave rise, in particular those between art and religion, it has also become possible for newer generations of artists to turn their talents unapologetically to religious motifs. The results, as several recent exhibits suggest, are both intriguing and markedly uneven. Reinventing Ritual, a show from last fall at the...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New public-opinion polls, reliable but highly limited in scope, yield a number of surprising results.Who Are the Neturei Karta?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Jonathan Mark | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group once linked with the Satmar Hasidism is now increasingly on its own in combining ultra-Orthodoxy with anti-Zionist zealotry.Why Yiddish?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "minor" culture has staged a rally, though an unstable one, at some American universities.Jews vs. Joseph Lieberman
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For some, the Connecticut Senator is a disgrace not only to liberalism but also to Judaism.