Jewish Ideas Daily has been succeeded and re-launched as Mosaic. Read more...

Search Results

Search for    in      

You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.

The Riddle of the Mufti
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Norman Goda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Haj Amin al-Husseini threw a long shadow as a precursor to the Arab and Muslim factions whose brand of anti-Semitism borrows much from the Western traditions that they otherwise despise.
The Real Story
Monday, December 5, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the hysterical response to an ad campaign targeted at expat Israelis, the insecurity of American Jews is laid bare.
Not One, Not Two . . .
Monday, December 5, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The absence of current demographic data for U.S. Jewry is something of a scandal, as Jews may indefinitely lack the information required for communal planning.
Detroit Rising
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Dan Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Like thousands of other young Jews from Michigan, Blair Nosan left the beleaguered state. But then, unexpectedly part of a young Jewish renaissance in the Motor City, she came back.
Who Killed Rafiq Tagi?
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Azeris wanted a modern, relatively secular state, prosperous and with equality for women. But the walls are closing in on them as Iranian and Islamist forces take hold.
Inhuman, All Too Inhuman
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

That Hezbollah was infiltrated by the CIA shows that the terror group was not as disciplined or as impermeable as thought.
When the Profane Becomes Sacred
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Israel Jacob Yuval | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While the Sabbateans were considered an internal Jewish problem, the Frankists were seen as a divisive presence, and one that was likely to create a new religion.
From Bucharest to Jerusalem From Bucharest to Jerusalem
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The cabinet of Romania headed by Prime Minister Emil Boc came to Jerusalem on November 24 to hold a joint session with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Boc spoke eloquently of the two countries' common security concerns and shared views on peace and security.
“Your work stinks of Judaism”
Friday, December 2, 2011 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Vasily Grossman achieved immense popularity as a journalist covering World War II. That's why it came as such a shock to the Soviet authorities when he submitted the manuscript of Life and Fate.
Jews, Christians, and Judeo-Christians
Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Geza Vermes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The earliest disciples of Jesus were observant Jews, but their distinctive doctrines have been obscured by the Gentile church that supplanted them.