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Poison PenMonday, April 16, 2012 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Nobel Prize-winning German novelist—a former SS soldier, no less—accuses the state of Israel of seeking to exterminate an entire people, and the literary republic yawns. But when Israel bars its accuser from entering the country, because ex-Nazis have no place in the Jewish state, the cries of "bullying" and "censorship" nearly drown out the original accusation.
Monday, April 16, 2012 by Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By reading the New Testament in its historical contexts, Jews can better comprehend not only Christianity's polemics, but its point of departure from Judaism.Learn Hebrew!
Monday, April 16, 2012 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The cultural gulf between Israel and the Diaspora can be bridged—but only if American Jews decide they want to bridge it.“We have a long list”
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Harriet Strachstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Shiddukh Crisis, ca. 1934.And Justice for All
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Shmuly Yanklowitz's writing is uneven and his scholarship is suspect, his activist agenda is built on classical Judaism.The Carp in the Bathtub
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Alan Deutschman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Brooklyn of the writer's youth, they didn't know from ahi tuna, but carp made good pets—and great gefilte fish, too.Prayers and Poems
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by David Yezzi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Poetry and prayer have been allied traditions from the beginning.The Life of Faith
Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Timothy Dolan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews and Catholics, having experienced bigotry themselves, should cooperate to keep religious prejudice from entering the U.S. presidential campaign. (Video interview by Bob Schieffer)
The Stuttering ServantThursday, April 12, 2012 by Samuel Davidkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Stuttering, the curious speech impediment that causes a few percent of the mostly male population to succumb unpredictably and unwillingly to occasional muteness, most recently received attention with the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, the story of Britain's wartime King George VI.
Among the Mourners of ZionWednesday, April 11, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
We are a nation of mourners this month, collectively observing the Jewish rituals of grief in memory of . . . well, something or other. The occasion for mourning is the Omer, which began on Saturday night; the reason for mourning is more mysterious.