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No More Laboring Under IllusionsTuesday, December 25, 2012 by Yossi Klein Halevi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Labor politicians' focus on domestic issues in the run-up to the Israeli elections reflects their recognition that their foreign policy agenda—the peace process—is dead.Frankincense Resurrected
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 by Matthew Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
1,500 years after the last frankincense tree disappeared from the Holy Land, Dr. Elaine Solowey has grown the first shoots of the tree whose sap was worth more than gold.
Not Dead Yet: The Remarkable Renaissance of Cantorial MusicTuesday, December 25, 2012 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After a half-century of steady decline, two unlikely Jewish groups are reviving hazzanut.
The Chief Rabbi of CanterburyMonday, December 24, 2012 by Simon Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With his public defense of religion, the outgoing Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has fulfilled an important role within British society—just not the one he was appointed to perform.
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jonathan Pollard was denounced as the most treacherous American spy since Benedict Arnold. But recently released documents show he never turned over information about the United States.Not Written in the Stars
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Jennifer Lipman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like the Mayans who said the world would end on December 21, medieval Jews predicted the future from the cosmos—much to the consternation of Maimonides.Lost in Translation
Monday, December 24, 2012 by Zev Eleff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Samson Raphael Hirsch has been described as “the intellectual godfather of modern Orthodoxy.” But his influence on American Orthodoxy had to wait until long after his death.