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Separating Church and Campaign StatementsTuesday, September 20, 2011 by Michael Medved | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rick Perry should learn from the Turner victory in New York that political arguments based on religious solidarity are non-starters.Her Secret
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Isabel Schwab | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography of Coco Chanel distinguishes itself by tackling the thorny subject of the designer's activities during World War II.
Rosh Hashanah with the Chief RabbiTuesday, September 20, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ten years ago, the first day of Rosh Hashanah—the two-day Jewish New Year—fell on September 18. That was one week after September 11, 2001, when almost 3,000 people were killed by Muslim terrorists. On that Rosh Hashanah, rabbis did not lack for sermon topics.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by L. Barkan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jordan's official expressions of support for Palestinian statehood can't conceal the cooling of relations between the two sides.Suffer the Little Children
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Rachel Burstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are Jewish day school graduates preoccupied with historical persecution?Jerusalem Syndrome
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The world's diplomats have convinced themselves that dividing the city of Jerusalem is the key to peace in the Middle East; they are deluded.Cairo’s Peace Dividend
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An honest public debate would show that the peace with Israel has been beneficial to Egypt, and in fact an essential first step toward freedom from despotic rule. “Frum” Week
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Emily Langowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For seven days, a Yale senior raised in the Reform movement alters her dress, her habits, and her ritual behavior to try out "a different way of connecting to God."How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot!
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As his letters to colleagues and friends reveal, the anti-Semitic impulses of the great poet were deep, but varied in intensity and consistency according to circumstances.Second Exile
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Lucette Lagnado | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt had no room for Jews. Longing for change, and even for return, the daughter of a family who fled in 1963 sees her hopes dashed.

