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Start-Up Continent?Friday, November 12, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New initiatives dedicated to Jewish education and culture proliferate across Europe, even as European Jewry's numbers stagnate or decline.
What’s Left?Friday, November 12, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Usually, when Israelis speak of Left and Right, they are differentiating mainly between security hawks and peace-camp doves—not between liberals and conservatives in general, or in the American or European sense. By this definition, Israel's left wing is in a sorry state.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by David Turner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How deeply embedded within present-day Christianity is the theological principle that the Jews have been replaced as God's chosen people?
Class DivideThursday, November 11, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The world's two largest Jewish communities differ in many ways. Class is one of them. That fact was made painfully clear this week as 4,000 communal professionals, activists, and donors met in New Orleans for the general assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America—at the same time that, in Israel, the National Insurance Institute (equivalent to the U.S. Social Security Administration) issued its annual report on "poverty and social gaps" in the Jewish state.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A copy of Maimonides' code of Jewish law, Mishneh Torah, signed, authorized, and approved for its accuracy by the master himself (1135-1204) , is now, thanks to modern technology, accessible to all.Broken Glass, Breached Wall
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Michael Slackman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two seminal events happened in Germany on November 9: Kristallnacht in 1938, and the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Is the former now remembered only by Jews?The Way to Civilization
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Abby Wisse Schachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
. . . is through the stomach, argues the new Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.Hearing it Every Which Way
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Elijah (1846), an oratorio by the baptized Felix Mendelssohn, has been interpreted as evincing Christian sentiments, Jewish sentiments, both, and neither.Blood Brothers
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 by Ehud Yaari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas and Iran, the one Sunni, the other Shiite, share the aim of a revived caliphate; therefore, argues the "moderate" director-general of Hamas's foreign ministry, they should form a true religio-political alliance.The Man Who Saved Western Civilization
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 by Tom Teicholz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A film born of historian Martin Gilbert's Churchill and the Jews documents the wartime leader's early, heroic, lonely, and uncompromising stance against Hitler.