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Tainted DemandsMonday, November 1, 2010 by Shmuel Trigano | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Mahmoud Abbas has made it abundantly clear why he refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state; it is blindness and denial for others to pretend otherwise.Rising Star of David
Monday, November 1, 2010 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across Africa, tribes are claiming Jewish descent and identification with Israel has become increasingly common.Egalitarianism and its Discontents
Monday, November 1, 2010 by Jay Michaelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why should lifelong liberal Jews seek out an Orthodox synagogue? For good and sufficient reasons.Portrayal = Betrayal?
Monday, November 1, 2010 by Susie Linfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A collection of harrowing photographs of wartime Lodz epitomizes the conundrum of Holocaust images: is it worse to reveal the horror, or to hide it?Evgeny Kissin Speaks Out
Monday, November 1, 2010 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An interview with the piano prodigy on why, after a career-long reticence, he is now bent on combating anti-Israel hysteria and coaxing Jews and others to acknowledge political reality.
The Mad Mystic of BratslavMonday, November 1, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (1772-1811) is the strangest and most paradoxical leader in the history of Hasidism, and one of its most original, albeit mad, geniuses. Nahman has been an object of both literary fascination and considerable scholarly research. He also shares center stage with Franz Kafka (1888-1924) in Rodger Kamenetz's Burnt Books.
Friday, October 29, 2010 by Lawrence J. Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
American Jews show a negative rate of population growth and high assimilation; Israel has different but no less disquieting problems. Needed: more Jews. Falsehood as Fact
Friday, October 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Israeli high-school history textbook abandons historical truth, objectivity, and intellectual honesty in order to present competing Israeli and Palestinian "narratives."
The Azeri ExceptionFriday, October 29, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Someone forgot to tell the republic of Azerbaijan that Jews and Muslims cannot live together in peace. Somewhere between twenty and forty thousand Jews reside in that Shiite country, which sits on Iran's northern border and enjoys diplomatic, economic, and military ties with Israel. Can this last, and for how long?
Friday, October 29, 2010 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How GOP victories in the midterm elections could help Obama's Mideast game plan