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Ode to CholentTuesday, September 21, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine sings of the "food of heaven."
Be JoyfulTuesday, September 21, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Alongside the more colorful and distinctive rituals of the Sukkot festival—the taking-up of lulav and etrog, the sukkah itself—there is another command, less concrete and more penetrating: "And you will rejoice." Indeed, the passage in Deuteronomy (16: 14-15) concludes, v'hayita akh sameah, translatable as "you will be altogether joyful," or even "you will be only joyful."
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Noah Kosharek | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recently discovered letter sheds new light on Jaffa's 1921 anti-Jewish pogroms.Yom Kippur at Sea
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year.J Street Blues
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Adam Kredo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is an organization supposedly focused on Israel taking stances on abortion and other issues in American domestic politics?
Hamas LoomingMonday, September 20, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas figure, was being ever so slightly disingenuous when he told the BBC that his movement would not attempt to halt the talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu because in any case they are bound to die a natural death on their own.
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Efraim Inbar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is not nearly so diplomatically isolated as its critics, from within and without, would have us believe. (PDF)Frail Home?
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Jonathan Wittenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a physical manifestation of the bonds of community and tradition, the sukkah is at once the weakest and the strongest thing that Jews build. (PDF.)
Heed the PowerFriday, September 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A centerpiece of the Yom Kippur liturgy, as of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy before it, is an ancient, unnerving poem known by its opening words: U'netaneh tokef. In a day of high drama designed to rouse a no less dramatic inner journey of introspection and atonement, this prayer, chanted by the hazzan before the open ark, has for centuries exercised a unique power, at once terrifying and shriving, over the hearts and minds of all who hear it.
Friday, September 17, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Delegitimizing Israel undermines our identity, warps our values, and puts at risk what we are and who we are." A September 15 speech in Washington, D.C.