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The Conscience of a Jewish ConservativeFriday, January 21, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Jewish thinker is normally someone devoted to the study and interpretation of Jewish texts, Jewish history, Jewish issues, Jewish ideas. The late Irving Kristol (1920–2009) was, for the most part, something else: a consummate American intellectual.
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Shai Afsai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the Founding Father's method of self-examination and character improvement found its way into 19th-century Lithuanian yeshivas.The Wounds of Time
Friday, January 21, 2011 by Ron Dermer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu responds to a magazine article on Israel's "rightward lurch."
A Zionist Who’s WhoThursday, January 20, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The state of Israel, like the Zionist movement in all its forms—political, cultural, artistic, religious—was an astounding collective creation. The famous names are known, as are the slightly less famous. But what about all the others?
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Meir Zamir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Intelligence documents reveal how Great Britain secured the collaboration of Arab leaders in Mandatory Palestine, thus also attempting to secure British influence in the Arab world.Aux Armes
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Montreal, lately beset by violence, a growing underclass of Muslim immigrants has brought with it a contempt for European cosmopolitanism and heavy doses of anti-Semitism.No Man’s Land
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Charles Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why are men less involved than ever in the Conservative movement? And what can be done about it?A Monarch Dethroned
Thursday, January 20, 2011 by Joshua Muravchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A finely wrought biography of Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi explores the ironies that led to the replacement of a moderate reformer by a brutal dictatorship.
From New Year to Arbor DayWednesday, January 19, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holiday of Tu Bishvat ("the fifteenth of Shvat") falls this year on Thursday, January 20. What are its origins, and when and why did it become incorporated into the calendar as the Jewish "Arbor Day"?
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as one exults in the power of the disenfranchised to overthrow a cruel dictator, the implications of the Tunisian upheaval are hardly all sunny.