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Returning HomeMonday, August 15, 2011 by Michele Chabin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With economic progress and relative quiet on the West Bank, the mass exodus of Palestinian Christians has slowed; some are coming back.Groupthink and the Sanhedrin
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Patricia Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did the decision-making practices of the ancient Jewish legislative body anticipate modern wisdom on averting conformism and encouraging dissent?Fiddles of Hope
Monday, August 15, 2011 by Noah Klieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Tel Aviv restorer specializes in violins that survived the Holocaust; at Auschwitz recently, Shlomo Mintz played one of them for visiting IDF cadets and officers.
Israel and the AntipodesMonday, August 15, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, a boulder smashed into a car, killing 23-year-old Israeli Ofer Mizrahi. The death toll from that earthquake was 181, including two Israelis besides Mizrahi.
The Challenge of EilatFriday, August 12, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a country where the sky is mostly blue, the southernmost city of Eilat has nonetheless laid claim—with justification—to being Israel's sun capital. Reliably good weather does not, however, solve all problems.
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Never until now has an American President made an issue of home-building in Jewish neighborhoods established in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 war and the city's reunification.Telling It Like It Wasn’t
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Twenty years after the notorious anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a former New York Times reporter relates how his paper stubbornly persisted in mischaracterizing the events as a "racial clash."By Faith Alone
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Israel Drazin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The late Rabbi Yehuda Amital was an influential Israeli educator, instrumental in integrating yeshiva study with military service, and an opponent of rabbis' setting public policy.Southern Belle
Friday, August 12, 2011 by Gil Shefler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, the birthplace of Reform Judaism in North America, about to experience a resurgence of Jewish residents and to become again a center of American Jewish life?
The New Enemies of CircumcisionThursday, August 11, 2011 by Jon D. Levenson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the practices that have characterized the Jewish people over the millennia, surely none has been observed more widely, or more faithfully, than circumcision.