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Until a Hundred TwentyTuesday, August 21, 2012 by Hillel Fradkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Bernard Lewis has published many books on the history of the Middle East and Islam. On these subjects he is, simply, the pre-eminent authority. At 96, he has now published yet another book: a memoir.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Obama refuses to intervene to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, he won’t be the first U.S. president to leave Israel standing alone in its hour of need.On the Virtue of Belief without Practice
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Herbert Loewe argued that it was better for lax Jews to believe one thing and do another than remake Jewish doctrine in their own image.Open Doors
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 by Nena C. Benigno | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1940, the last Jews to escape from Nazi Germany found no country willing to take them in until President Quezon of the Philippines invited them to live and work in Manila.Archeology for Haredim
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 by Rafi G. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A government-funded archeological park in Modi’in Illit will tell the story of the Second Temple site—by Haredim, to Haredim.Hizballah’s Holiday Home
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 by Nicholas Kulish | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Europe has cultivated a tacit détente with Hizballah, whereby if Hizballah does not stage attacks, European governments do not interfere with its fundraising and organizational work.
Through Night and FogMonday, August 20, 2012 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
My father and I visited Auschwitz for the first time this summer. It was toward the end of a long trip to Eastern Europe. We had already gone to the killing fields and forests of Lithuania, and to Warsaw, where my father broke down . . .
Monday, August 20, 2012 by David Sugarman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hoping to find spiritual uplift, the author of Moby-Dick made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land only to find Jerusalem “half melancholy, half farcical, like all the rest of the world.”