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SnowmageddonMonday, March 8, 2010 by Samuel G. Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The collapse of eruvim in winter storms has raised interest in a generally unmarked Jewish concept; an American artist sees the enclosures as drawings in space.
WordsMonday, March 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the potentially deleterious effects of the digital revolution is a flattening of consciousness—or so some fear. What sort of leveling takes place as we click relentlessly through the endless web? At what point do the words—thoughtful, meaningless, moving, inane—all bleed together? How to maintain any sense of the preciousness of language itself? Several texts recently come to light manage, each in its own way, to remind us that a whole, irreplaceable world can rest in a few furtive lines found who knows where. Phrases inked on pottery discovered at an excavation in Israel have been dated to the late-11th or early-10th...
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Damian Thompson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not really, but he did have a pronounced and little-discussed distaste for Jews.Handling Hamas
Monday, March 8, 2010 by Adam Ingram | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a British Labor MP, comparisons with the Irish Republican Army are tempting, but fallacious; Hamas is nowhere near ready to negotiate.Jewish Hip-Hop, What Next?
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Hugh Muir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Along with a slew of other events, the welcome appearance in London of the rapper Ephrhyme may signal a newly distinctive British-Jewish cultural landscape.
RabbahFriday, March 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Several weeks ago, a well-known Modern Orthodox rabbi in New York announced that a learned young woman serving in his synagogue as a teacher, preacher, pastoral counselor, and halakhic guide would henceforth be referred to as "Rabbah"—the feminine form of "Rav," or rabbi. In thus effectively ordaining Sara Hurwitz as the first female Orthodox rabbi, Avraham (Avi) Weiss set off a firestorm. The presiding body of ultra-Orthodox rabbis has ruled that Weiss himself must no longer be called Orthodox; the Rabbinical Council of America, an avowedly Modern Orthodox body, may expel him as well. No stranger to controversy, Weiss has bucked...
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The IAEA may finally be getting real about Tehran's nuclear-weapons program.Supply-Side Judaism
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Elie Kaunfer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among young American Jews, the demand for knowledge and identification is there. Missing are the initiatives and the leaders to meet it.Killing Their Own
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Shay Fogelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the first intifada, more Palestinians were murdered by Palestinian authorities than by Israel; the tally for the second intifada stands at 593, and those not executed were horribly tortured. Human-rights groups seem uninterested.In Old Cordoba
Friday, March 5, 2010 by Daniel Savery | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A walking tour through the town where Maimonides was born.
