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Let the Palestinians Declare StatehoodTuesday, April 20, 2010 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With no prospect of an agreement in sight, the unilateral formation of a state would help to normalize the dispute.From the Four Winds
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Robert Leiter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Through the eyes of two different immigrant families in 1950s Israel, the novelist Haim Sabato has written a profoundly moving meditation on Judaism and Jewish history.God’s Country
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Aryeh Newman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Living in the land of Israel, in the judgment of the great medieval commentator Nahmanides, is "equal in importance to all the commandments." An essay from 1968.
1948: Palestine BetrayedTuesday, April 20, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Zionist Jews were not interlopers in Palestine. The creation of the Jewish state was not an "original sin" foisted upon the Arab world. The tragic flight of the Palestinian refugees was overwhelmingly not the fault of the Zionists. To the contrary, at every momentous junction the Zionists opted for compromise and peace, the Arabs for intransigence and belligerency. This, in summary, is how most people once understood the Arab-Israel conflict. Today, however, as Israel marks its Independence Day, an entire generation has come to maturity believing a diametrically opposite "narrative": namely, that the troubles persist because of West Bank settlements, because...
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Tulin Daloglu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By re-defining Israel as an enemy, the Turkish prime minister has set back the cause of peace and stability.Lebanon’s Fate
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book offers a dispassionate but intimate account of the human condition under severe sectarian stress—and a modest vision of a way forward.Baseball, Football, and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Jonah Goldwater | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An inquiry, against the background of the Sabbath, into George Carlin's comic routine on the divide between the two great American games.
Remembering the Fallen, and Why They FellMonday, April 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The ten days from last week's Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) through today's Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) to tomorrow's Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzma'ut) constitute, for Israelis and many Jews worldwide, a passage in which the theme of death and loss plays an inevitably central role. The evolution of that theme over the years has come to be reflected in poetic texts and liturgies whose meaning has itself evolved in Israeli and Jewish consciousness. Perhaps the most famous of these texts is Magash Hakesef ("The Silver Platter") by the poet Natan Alterman, the centennial of whose birth is being marked this year....
Monday, April 19, 2010 by James Risen and Yossi Klein Halevi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A six-part exchange on what Americans and Israelis are trying to say to each other.Unwelcome Mat
Monday, April 19, 2010 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How the ultra-Orthodox gained a stranglehold on standards of conversion to Judaism, and how it can and should be undone.
