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The Haredi ConundrumFriday, September 28, 2012 by Gershom Gorenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Haredi men in Israel are beginning to realize that the status quo cannot last much longer, they lack the basic education necessary to enter the workforce.Uniting Past and Future
Friday, September 28, 2012 by Raymond Apple | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sukkot doesn’t just remind us of the huts that our ancestors built in the wilderness, but it also presages the future, “when all mankind will sit in unity in God’s universal sukkah.”Time Bomb
Friday, September 28, 2012 by Yaron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the deepening economic crisis fuels riots against Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the West Bank is teetering on the brink of revolution.

Friday, September 28, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Irony cannot exist in isolation; something is ironic only in relation to a larger pattern of events or behavior. Every three years, the city of Frankfurt awards its Adorno Prize to honor scholarly achievement in philosophy, music, film, and theater.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 by David Remnick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Fundamentally, we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists.”Prisoners of Yom Kippur
Thursday, September 27, 2012 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shot down over Damascus on the second day of the Yom Kippur War, Ori Shahak was captured and tortured in Syria; every Yom Kippur takes him back there. By the Sweat of Thy Brow
Thursday, September 27, 2012 by Paul Foer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Based in the hills of north-west Connecticut, the Adamah Jewish Environmental Fellowship aims to bring Jews closer to the land and their Creator—by making pickles. Hamas: Now Even More Radical
Thursday, September 27, 2012 by Zvika Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the leader of Hamas is hardly a friend of Israel, his forthcoming resignation presages an even more hard-line stance from the government of Gaza.