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Politics and Britain’s JewsMonday, April 26, 2010 by Richard Millet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the run-up to the May 6 general election, the issue of Israel is being shamelessly manipulated by more than one British party.“My Home Now”
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Nurit Wurgaft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On being German and non-Jewish and living in Israel.
Muslim Anti-SemitismFriday, April 23, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The prevalence of deep anti-Semitism in many parts of the Muslim world is one of today's scarier phenomena. To some, it can also seem mysterious. To be sure, Jews regularly suffered persecution under the Crescent as they did under the Cross, but not with the same sustained ferocity. Nor did Islam ever bring forth a racially-infused hatred of Jews like that of the Spanish Church—or, in our own times, the Nazis. Until, that is, the Nazis themselves got into the act. Since then, and to an extent previously unparalleled in Muslim history, Jews and Judaism have been demonized beyond all proportion...
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The power of the growing India-Israel connection is only beginning to make itself felt.Rare Illumination
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israel Museum will put on display a restored 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.Two Palestinian Authorities
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The political divide between Ramallah and Gaza is no more reconcilable than the same, larger divide in the Middle East as a whole.The Women of Modern Orthodoxy
Friday, April 23, 2010 by Debra Nussbaum Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nuances in a campaign for religious leadership: it's not all about becoming rabbis.
What the Archaeologist KnewThursday, April 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The ghosts of Qumran have conjured up two distinct communities of modern scholars: the archaeologists who dig in the caves and discover the libraries, and the textual scholars who read and interpret the Dead Sea Scrolls in cavernous libraries of their own. Not many have been able to move with assurance among both. One of them was Hanan Eshel, who died earlier this month at age fifty-two. The author of more than 200 articles and several books aimed at both scholars and the wider public, Eshel synthesized a broad knowledge of classical Jewish texts with rich archaeological experience and a deep...
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Eric K. Clemons and Elizabeth T. Gray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Pressuring Israel to stop building in East Jerusalem will not achieve any of its desired objectives.In Budapest, with Ghosts
Thursday, April 22, 2010 by Haviv Rettig Gur | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A group looking for "a small parcel of Jewish history" finds instead that "Jewish history had come looking for us."
