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Israeli Intransigence? Try Palestinian RejectionismThursday, November 17, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The conventional wisdom in diplomatic and media circles concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict is that Israeli intransigence—especially on the building of West Bank settlements—is the dead weight that prevents the achievement of a two-state solution.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Adam Nicolson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The first editions of the King James Bible were littered with mistakes. One left out a crucial word in Exodus 20:14, to read "thou shalt commit adultery"—an error for which the printers were heavily fined.Truth from an Unlikely Source
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Conrad Black | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The new country of South Sudan has taken its place squarely with the Jewish state and attacked the Arab-led conspiracy against Israel in international organizations.Free Market Rabbinate
Thursday, November 17, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Competition for marriage registration in Israel would foster religious expression and provide a positive alternative to the Chief Rabbinate's counterproductive monopoly.In Concert
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Stuart Low | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How to characterize the work of composers like Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Mahler, in which Jewish folk tunes and Bible stories are blended with Christian themes?
On the Road AgainWednesday, November 16, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The chronically tense relations between the Israeli government and Bedouins in the Negev—where unrecognized villages are built, razed, and built again—are certain to grow even more tense with the Israeli Cabinet's recent approval of a plan that will recognize about half these villages but demolish the other half.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Shimon Glick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The right of workers to strike is engrained in modern societies. But is it ethical for physicians to withhold treatment when human lives may be at stake?Minnesota Fats
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Andrew Muchin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Borekas filled with dried Michigan cherries, pumpernickel sprinkled with Iowa sunflower seeds, gefilte fish from Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, and other Jewish foodways of the American heartland.Identity Cleft
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by James Hyman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Israeli Jews are fully enveloped in a Jewish identity which embraces religion, culture, education, land, and history, American Jews have a much more limited self-definition.The Land of Oś
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Danny Ghitis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The grandson of a Holocaust survivor photographs the town that was home to Auschwitz.