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Entebbe RevealedMonday, November 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In recently released transcripts from July 1976, Israel's cabinet agonizes over what would become, perhaps, "the most important counterterrorism military mission ever."
The Non-ZionistMonday, November 8, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The YIVO Institute in New York recently marked the 150th birthday of perhaps the most eminent among its founders: the historian and nationalist ideologue Simon Dubnow (1860-1941). Massively influential in its time, Dubnow's historical writing has been overshadowed by the work of later generations of scholars. In the meantime, the cause he championed—Diaspora Jewish nationalism—was throttled by the Holocaust. Yet the man and his ideas may be ripe for rediscovery.
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Paul Vitello | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Historians are undermining Italy's image as a late and reluctant collaborator with Nazi race laws, even while affirming that the country did save the lives of many Jews.The New Jewish Quarter of Damascus
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Ksenia Svetlova | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A neighborhood without Jews is coming back to life as a tourist destination, while questions of property rights remain unanswered.From Rashi to Face Cream
Monday, November 8, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new French biography traces cosmetics maven Helena (Chaja) Rubinstein's complex relationship to her Judaism.A Black Pearl
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Policeman, a movie by Israel's master satirist Ephraim Kishon, has retained its sting four decades after its first airing.The Tea Party Comes to Jerusalem
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Yitzhak Benhorin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Newly elected Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday, in a visit suggesting the disposition of the 112th Congress.Triumphs and Travails
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Sue Fishkoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A worldwide celebration—and some controversy—will mark the conclusion of Adin Steinsaltz's monumental Hebrew translation of the Babylonian Talmud.
The Warrior RabbiFriday, November 5, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Praise of military virtue, prominent in the Bible, is almost non-existent in the Talmud, which, in the aftermath of the destruction of the Temple and the exile of the Jews by the Romans, either ignores wartime feats or re-interprets them as allegories of intellectual or spiritual prowess. The Talmud's relative silence on the subject would prove enduring. Until the second half of the 20th century, with few exceptions, military virtue was consistently depreciated in traditional Jewish thought.
Friday, November 5, 2010 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For many American Jewish youngsters, an elite education means an outlandishly expensive immersion in an environment increasingly hostile to Israel, to religion, and to traditional American values. Time to rethink?