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Milking DubaiThursday, March 4, 2010 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arab and European media revel in excoriating Israel for deeds the same media excuse or ignore when practiced by other governments.
Hannah ArendtThursday, March 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Nearly 35 years after her death, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) continues to spark discussion and reflection. For Israeli readers in particular, the recent appearance in Hebrew translation of her magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism, as well as of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's massive biography (1982, rev. 2004), brings home her continuing ability to frustrate and provoke. A consummate German-Jewish intellectual, Arendt received a thorough philosophical training, studying (and more than studying) with Martin Heidegger and writing a dissertation on Augustine's theory of love. The rise of Nazism drove her from metaphysics to politics; she became active, first in Germany and later after fleeing to...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Neria Guttel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A learned and fascinating book delves into the significance of lotteries—and of coincidence and randomness—in Judaism.Unorthodox Methods
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Liana B. Baker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A modern-Orthodox rabbi in San Francisco reverses a congregation's decline; Twitter figures in the strategy, as do Super Bowl parties.“I owe a great debt to Jews”
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Jessica Elgot | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Michael Foot, a leader of the old British Labor party, has died at 96.The Desert Rat
Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Jake Wallis Simons | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1944, Denis Avey broke into Auschwitz and swapped identities with a Jewish inmate. Now, at 91, he reveals why. Listen.
Are We One?Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The hate-fest known as "Israeli Apartheid Week," now taking place in cities around the globe, is bound to affect the morale of Diaspora Jews, if in different ways. Some may be induced to lower their pro-Israel profile, others to dissociate themselves from the Jewish state and its policies, still others to affirm their solidarity ever more resolutely. We have come a long way since the 1967 Six-Day War. Before that watershed event, Diaspora Jewish life was not noticeably animated by a vigorous commitment to Israel's cause. But the country's spectacular victory in war, in tandem with the energies released by the...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Critics of Israel's actions in Dubai and elsewhere are completely wrong.Prize Find
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A broken pottery shard bears, in ink, the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered.Loving Israel
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the elites may think, the American people continue to favor Israel overwhelmingly.
