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OrthodoxiesFriday, April 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Is Modern Orthodoxy an Endangered Species?" This was the question posed at a conference yesterday in Jerusalem. Some speakers suggested that the very term "Modern Orthodoxy" doesn't fit the Israeli context or even accurately describe this slice of Jewish life. But what, indeed, is it? Like nearly all denominational labels, this one is a product of the ideological and political debates of the 19th century, as the radical options posed by modernity—including the possibilities of assimilation without conversion to Christianity and of political self-determination—scrambled traditional categories as never before. In this unprecedented situation, adherents of tradition in general and of traditional Jewish law...
Friday, April 2, 2010 by Hanna Ingber Win | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sixteen months after terrorist massacres, Jewish life moves forward at a communal seder.Lady Gaga vs. Middle East Peace
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's settlements, the bugbear of both the Obama administration and Pat Buchanan, account for but a fraction of jihadist rage.Radical Judaism
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by David Wolpe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his latest book, the theologian Arthur Green argues that there is no Jewish chosenness since there is no Chooser, and that left-wing politics is a spiritual imperative.Israel by Design
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Felix Burrichter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the country's abundant landmarks of architecture and design, a newly opened museum in Holon may be the most dramatic.Sabbath Joy Down South
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Emily Wagster Pettus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A circuit-riding rabbi serves tiny Jewish communities in thirteen states across the American South.What a Divided Jerusalem Would Look Like
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by David M. Weinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Instead of bringing peace, partitioning the city will destroy it.
EasterThursday, April 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Around the world this weekend, Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter, the holiday marking the death and resurrection of Jesus and the culmination of the period of penitence that began with Ash Wednesday on February 17. The first bishops in Jerusalem were Jews, and so the early Christian community commemorated the Feast of the Resurrection on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, coinciding with the Jewish festival of Passover. In Temple times, the essential rite of Passover was the slaughter of a paschal lamb; the Christian Bible explicitly tied this ritual with Rome's crucifixion of Jesus:...
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jay Lefkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Judaism: A Way of Being, David Gelernter shows, in words and images, how Jewish experience echoes through and across all of Western experience.Unsplitting the (Song of the) Sea
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two long-separated fragments from a rare 8th-century Torah scroll are on dramatic display at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book.
