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Patriarchy RampantMonday, October 11, 2010 by Jill Hamilton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever complaints Israeli Jews have about the chief rabbinate's grip on marriage and family law, Christians all over the Middle East have it worse.Signs of Life
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Joanna Paraszczuk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In hip, avant-garde, multicultural Tel Aviv, the latest cool thing is . . . Yiddish.Gone West
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Asher Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new exhibit documents the founding and the flourishing of Chicago's Jewish community.Minority Report
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit with members of minority populations who straddle the mountainous regions bordering Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. (With photos)The Sonderberg Case
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Elie Wiesel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is all the world a stage? A theater critic uses his training to report on the trial of a young German defendant pleading "Guilty . . . and not guilty." (Novel excerpt)The Devil Is in the Details
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.Losing Robinson Crusoe
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A translation of a 20th-century Torah commentary has excised its author's moving paragraph on the "agony of solitude" endured by Daniel Defoe's hero. Why?
Englishing the Hebrew BibleFriday, October 8, 2010 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
All translators of the Hebrew Bible into English work in the shadow of the genius of the King James Version (KJV), done in the 17th century and still in wide use today despite its thee's and thou's. Jewish translations, following the sequence and other features of the Hebrew Bible, and guided by rabbinic understandings, have been brought out by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and others.
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has issued a revolutionary and problematic plea for the teaching of Torah to Christians, evidently with an eye toward genuine theological commonality between the two faiths.
Romancing HasidismThursday, October 7, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hasidism has a long history of concurrently repelling and enchanting modern Jews. Today, its distinguishing features—isolationism, religious fanaticism, and aggressive rejection of all things modern, including not only non-Orthodox Judaism but the very idea of secularity—are inexplicable, if not abhorrent, to much of world Jewry.