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A Convenient HatredTuesday, March 6, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With some 1,000 books currently in print on the subject, does the world desperately need another tome on anti-Semitism? What difference will it make, when anti-Israelism provides only the latest justification for Europe's persistent prejudice against Jews and anti-Semitic views are shared by 15 percent of Americans and 90 percent of Muslims worldwide?
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by David Gelernter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Frank Lloyd Wright's sprawling celebration of suburban Judaism echoes the shape of a long-ago building in Poland. And that echo tells us something about the remarkable history of synagogue architecture. (With images)Rhetorical Record
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Dan Senor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Obama claims to have done more for Israel's security than any previous president, but his record, along with the discontent it has provoked within the Democratic party, tells a different story.Raising Cane
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Benjamin of Tudela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the story of a debtor hiding gold inside a walking cane (both to deceive his creditor and to avoid technically lying under oath) make its way from the Talmud to Don Quixote?Forked Tonge
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 by Howard Jacobson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dismissed from the UK's Liberal Democrat party for an apparent longing for Israel's extinction, Jenny Tonge cried foul. But hating Israel doesn't grant automatic immunity from the charge of loathing Jews.
What Would Ariel Sharon Do?Monday, March 5, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Biographies of father by sons are an uncertain genre. Closeness necessarily entails distortion, positive or negative. But at a time when the vast majority of Israeli and world leaders seem strikingly small, it is worth considering the portrait of Ariel Sharon provided by his youngest son.
Monday, March 5, 2012 by Giles MacDonogh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For all its dryness, Georg Gaugusch's extraordinary new tome captures the meteoric rise of Jews into Austrian high society and their precipitous fall.Russian Renaissance
Monday, March 5, 2012 by David Rozenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an interview, the director of the Avi Chai Foundation in the Former Soviet Union speaks of escaping the USSR as a boy, and of returning as an adult to rebuild Jewish life (Part I; Part II is here).“Meh” Generation
Monday, March 5, 2012 by Ben Zimmer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The now-ubiquitous utterance likely began as a Yiddish idiom of world-weariness. But it was "The Simpsons" that brought meh to the masses.Musings on Mendelssohn
Monday, March 5, 2012 by Robert Erlewine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Much has been written about Moses Mendelssohn's historical significance, but a collection of new translations heralds a revival of interest in his philosophy.