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Singing “Their” TunesMonday, August 29, 2011 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the halakhic permissibility of, among other things, non-Jewish rituals and music in Jewish worship.Céline the Inescapable
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A permanent and, by some, celebrated presence on the French literary landscape, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) incarnates for many others the epitome of rabid anti-Semitic bigotry.These Sacred Dead
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Adam Chandler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tucked away in hidden corners of Manhattan are some of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the United States.Fiction Prediction
Friday, August 26, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the leading practitioners of experimental fiction, not a single Jewish name can be counted—a trend anticipated by Cynthia Ozick in 1970.Charity Begins Where?
Friday, August 26, 2011 by Joel Braunold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Israel, it's easier for charities to go abroad to raise money than it is for them to turn to the state's new wealthy class. Initials SG
Friday, August 26, 2011 by George Robinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the heart of the new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is the Jewish identity of the pop provocateur.
Demonizing Glenn BeckFriday, August 26, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few American public figures equal Glenn Beck in his ability to inspire loathing from his enemies and affection from his admirers. Beck was in Israel this past week for a series of public events—in effect, revival meetings. He called the tour "Restoring Courage."
Friday, August 26, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contradictions, or at least inconsistencies, marked Joseph B. Soloveitchik's involvement in virtually every major issue that confronted modern Orthodoxy.
Hidden MasterThursday, August 25, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The saddest saga in Jewish literary history involves some 500 Soviet Yiddish artists who were stolen away by Stalin's henchmen in the late 1940's. They met a tragic fate after twenty years under a relentlessly repressive regime whose creation they had greeted with utopian fervor.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To understand the Brotherhood's prospects in Egypt's upcoming elections, one has to understand the intensely disciplined organization itself.