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Between Israel and AustraliaWednesday, March 24, 2010 by Daniel Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A strong and supple relationship, with its own history of brittle and tension-filled moments.Reenactors
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like many American Southerners, Jews live in and through the past; but there are differences, too.Traveling with God
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by Yitzchak Blau | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Abraham through the eyes of Joseph Soloveitchik.Lost & Found
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by Tzofia Hirshfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Discovered in Geneva: missing segments of the Jerusalem Talmud, stored centuries ago in the Cairo Genizah.Between Israel and Azerbaijan
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Jason Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The close relationship between the Jewish state and the Muslim-majority nation is a matter of pragmatism and shared interests, also of history and shared values.
AIPACAgainst a background of sharp disagreement between Washington and Jerusalem, the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee winds down today. On Monday, the 7,500 delegates—Jews, Christians, African Americans, as well as European and Canadian activists—heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declare that the United States would tell Israel the "truth" when "difficult but necessary choices" had to be made. Today, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet President Barack Obama. Delegates from all 50 states planned to spend Tuesday on Capitol Hill speaking with their respective Senators and Members of Congress. But what is AIPAC, and what...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Nathan Laufer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the meanings contained in a powerful seder ritual.Glorious Bastard?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Jack Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Nashville, opinions differ widely on a gun dealer and uninhibited political blogger who also happens to be Oxford-educated and Orthodox.Thorn in the PA’s Side
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Karin Laub and Dalia Nammari | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The odyssey of a former Palestinian intelligence agent turned anti-corruption campaigner.
Milton SteinbergA different sort of book launch took place yesterday at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, a flagship of the Conservative movement. Being celebrated was the release of a long-lost novel left unfinished at the time of the author's death 60 years ago. The author was Milton Steinberg, who once served as the synagogue's rabbi and was among the most influential American Jews of the 20th century. Steinberg's early thought was molded by three teachers. At City College, the philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen imbued in him a commitment to philosophical rationalism. Rabbi Jacob Kohn taught him that the life of the...
