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A Sheep in Wolf’s ClothingFriday, January 13, 2012 by Michael A. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Mitt Romney certainly talks tough on Iran, European socialism, and Obama's abandonment of Israel. But would his foreign policy really be any different?
Human Rights and Religious WrongsFriday, January 13, 2012 by Jonathan Neumann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Although the discourse on human rights has a long pedigree, traceable at least to early modern natural rights theory and politics, the philosophical case for human rights against one alternative, religion, has yet to be made.
Friday, January 13, 2012 by Andrea Strongwater | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A wooden synagogue, a synagogue that hosted Zionist meetings, the first Reform temple with an organ: a slideshow of the artist's paintings of pre-World War II synagogues for a series of children's books.Israel’s Indian Connection
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Marc Sloman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The highest-ranking Indian official in a decade is about to visit Israel. His trip is another step in India's 20-year journey out of Third World socialism.Silent Majority
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Matthew Ackerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Everyone says young American Jews are increasingly hostile to Israel. But is it true? A new poll cautions us not to mistake a vocal minority for the majority.Analyzing Ashkelon
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Sam Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Science is revolutionizing the study of ancient Ashkelon—revealing mysterious cylinders as parts of ancient looms, proving that what we thought were palaces may really have been stables.The Last Resort
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Jordana Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews may have deserted the Catskills for the Vineyard and the Hamptons. But one of the great resorts, Kutsher's, refuses to go quietly. Meet Kutsher's Tribeca.
Among the LiteratiThursday, January 12, 2012 by Erika Dreifus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some days, I can't help thinking back 25 years to my high-school French course, which is where I first encountered the concept of the juste milieu—the happy medium—and the difficulty of achieving it. Why is the happy medium so elusive? Why do I more often feel caught betwixt and between or, even among my fellow Jewish-American writers, alone?
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
You can't understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help.Sh’mot: What’s in a Name?
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
"These are the names of the children of Israel": Despite having designated them by name during their lifetimes, [Scripture] enumerates them again, posthumously, to indicate how beloved they were. (Rashi 1:1) While the traditional English title of Sh'mot is "Exodus," the word translates literally as "names." This presents us with the opportunity to explore the significance the Bible attaches to names, in general, and the meaning of one individual name, in particular.