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My Summer in JordanTuesday, October 4, 2011 by Eric T. Justin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Traveling in the Middle East, an American student expected to encounter anti-Semitism. But he was unprepared to discover how retrograde and pervasive it was.The Audacity of Faith
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A biography of Yehuda Amital reveals a daringly exuberant figure whose journey led from a Nazi labor camp to a unique and controversial place in Israeli religious and political life. In Memoriam: Emanuel Litvinoff
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Judith Burnley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The prolific British poet, novelist, and screenwriter raised his voice in protest against the fate of the Jews.Holy Writ
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Transforming the English language, the King James Version also permanently shaped English and Western ideas about human nature, freedom, and responsibility.
Israel Studies 101Monday, October 3, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The modern American research university is a house of many rooms. The field of Israel Studies, which has emerged in the past decade, occupies one of the newest—and smallest—of those rooms.
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Janet Tassel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a brilliant 1989 essay, Jeane Kirkpatrick foresaw the long march through the UN that has led to the bid for Palestinian statehood.Reviving the Dead Sea Scrolls
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Jon Stokes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Google's digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls will enable easy public viewing and radically advance the tools, and the cause, of historical scholarship.Oil from the Rock
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Amiram Barkat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do Israel's shale deposits hold as much oil as there is in Saudi Arabia, and can it be gotten out?Plato and the Talmud
Monday, October 3, 2011 by Alan Avery-Peck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Philosophically, "Athens" and "Jerusalem" represent wholly incompatible viewpoints on the truth. Not so, argues a new book. (PDF)At the Bar of Justice
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 by Eliezer Segal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In envisioning the great annual "day of judgment," the ancient rabbis and poets invoked legal and military images drawn from Greek and Roman life.