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Israel’s Second JosephMonday, January 7, 2013 by Liel Leibovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Placed in charge of rationing food in the nascent State of Israel, Dov Yosef was widely hated and readily forgotten. But no one went hungry.Love Makes the Melody Immortal!
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Inbal Freund-Novick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent concert in Berlin, featuring cantors and choirs from across Europe, has brought the music of Louis Lewandowski back home.Workers’ Rights
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Jewish law does not require an employer to offer severance pay to a dismissed employee, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein enshrined it as an American Jewish custom.
Dr. Orlinsky and Mr. GreenFriday, January 4, 2013 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Harry Orlinsky is best known today as “Mr. Green,” the scholar who authenticated the four Dead Sea Scrolls offered for sale in a Wall Street Journal want ad. But his legacy as a Bible scholar is enormous.
Friday, January 4, 2013 by David Brinn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"One great religious leader can move a community, one great political leader can shoulder a nation, and one intellectual leader can change hearts and minds."No Nate Silver Here
Friday, January 4, 2013 by Raphael Ahren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In contrast to their U.S. counterparts, Israel's pollsters use small samples, refuse to reveal the precise questions they ask—and have been wrong about every election so far.Harold Bloom’s Divine Obsession
Friday, January 4, 2013 by David Mikics | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Literary critic Harold Bloom dismisses halakhic Judaism as a "fossil." But, 20 years after his work The Book of J, the Bible continues to obsess him.Beyond the Tanya
Friday, January 4, 2013 by Eli Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Tanya, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, remains the foundational text of Chabad Hasidism. But it was Shneur Zalman's oral teachings that built a movement.