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A Rabbi Cartel?Friday, April 29, 2011 by Allison Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do denominational restrictions on the hiring of American Jewish clergy not only deprive local congregations of their autonomy but create an illegal monopoly?Crossing All Lines
Friday, April 29, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli radicals who went to comfort the families of the Fogels' murderers and to slander the IDF violated every norm of human decency.A Democratic Middle East?
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A look at the economic and geographic history of the region suggests why, with the single exception of Israel, its political evolution has stalled.
Loving the JewsThursday, April 28, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Five years before Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State in 1896, an American Methodist lay leader named William Blackstone dreamed of the Jewish people's returning to their ancestral homeland and rebuilding their ancient country. Blackstone translated his dream into a petition signed by 400 prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and a future president, William McKinley.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Judith Fein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the third owner of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantation, the colorful and controversial Uriah P. Levy may have founded America's historic-preservation movement.The Ultimate Ally
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Michael Oren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The "realists" are wrong: America needs Israel now more than ever.Righteous Among This Nation
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Michael Berenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is the great untold story of the Holocaust that of the Jews who put their lives at even more acute risk to rescue other Jews?The Moralist
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Asa Kasher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The man who helps set the Israel Defense Force's ethical parameters explains what to do when one's opponents do not follow the rules of war. (Interview by David Horovitz)From Our Archives: Science, Faith, and Biblical Archeology
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Biblical archeology was born out of twinned desires: to "illuminate" the world of the Bible and, ultimately, to prove the truth of the Word. Armed with a trowel in one hand and a Bible in the other, 19th-century archeologists in the Holy Land, most of them Protestant clergymen, had little difficulty finding what they were looking for.From Our Archives: Sin City on the Sea?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tel Avivians are rubbing their eyes these days. Until lately so little thought of by the world that many tourists to Israel never bothered to visit it at all, their city is suddenly high on the places-to-be lists. Of course, one needs to read the fine print. It's not for its beauty that Tel Aviv is being praised by National Geographic and the Lonely Planet.