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Ubiquitous DissentWednesday, May 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The chairman of Peace Now in France, David Chelma, has been instrumental in a new Jewish effort to dissent from Israeli policies. The initiative is dubbed JCall, a term explicitly intended to evoke the Washington-based organization J Street. Over the past weekend, the group issued a web-based petition, entitled "European Jewish Call for Reason," denouncing Israeli settlements as "morally and politically wrong" and seeking to promote a movement in behalf of "the voice of reason." The 3,000-plus signers include such pro-Israel luminaries as the philosophers Bernard Henri-Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut. Israel's former ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, is also a backer. The campaigners...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A survey, with images, of the life, the work, and the manuscript collection of a prodigious 19th-century Jewish scholar.Another UN Human-Rights Farce
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Anne Applebaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Having pulled out all stops to keep Iran off the Human Rights Council, the U.S. and its allies are now faced with Teheran's appointment to the Commission on the Status of Women.
The Organized CommunityThere are hundreds of Jewish organizations in the United States. Fifty-two national groups have qualified for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. But only a handful, whether secular, religious, or "fraternal," can be said to wield extensive influence either inside the Jewish community or beyond it. One of these is the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a quintessential establishment agency whose annual meeting, held last week in Washington, drew notables from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Founded in New York by affluent, acculturated "uptown" German Jews in 1906, the AJC sought initially to...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The political scientist famous for warning about the cabal steering America away from its true national interests has carved out an exemption for certain "righteous Jews." Echoes of Father Coughlin?Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by John Bolton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the administration resigned to a strategy of post-nuclear containment, the case needs to be made for the necessity of Israeli pre-emption.Haim Saban
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by Connie Bruck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli-American entertainment mogul, heavy Democratic donor, and fervid Clinton supporter is unhappy with administration policy.Debating Iran
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Roger Cohen and Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the nature and intentions of the Islamic Republic, and what to do about them: a live faceoff.Was There an Exodus?
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Israel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hershel Shanks interviews a controversial historian of biblical Israel.Under Swiss Eyes
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Simon Erlanger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A tiny fragment of Switzerland's population, Jews still bear the image of the essential Other against which Swiss identity has long defined itself.
