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Trials of the DiasporaFriday, February 19, 2010 by Vernon Bogdanor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new book, Anthony Julius asks why, if anti-Semitism in Britain is not respectable, attacks on Jews have reached a record high.The Elon Affair and Religious Zionism
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A scandal over the alleged sexual misconduct of a prominent Israeli rabbi could end by strengthening a movement much tried by recent history.Saving the Classics
Friday, February 19, 2010 by Noam Ben Zeev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a scholar of Hebrew songs from the pre-1948 period, and the organization that makes them all available online.
Libels and PoliticsThursday, February 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Here we go again. Baroness Jenny Tonge of Britian's Liberal Democratic party called recently for a serious investigation of charges that Israeli rescue teams were in Haiti to harvest organs. In the ensuing firestorm, she has been removed from her role as "health spokesman" for her party in the House of Lords. What is going on here? It is one thing for Hamas to fling about heinous lies. Among Western elites, "Israel-bashing" seems too thin an explanation for the mounting eruptions of lunatic forms of anti-Semitism, unhinged from even the most severe criticisms reasonable people might make of Israeli policies. Are we...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Implications, for the West and for Israel, of the new contest for leadership in the Muslim world.Uneasy Communion
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Robin Cembalest | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exhibit in New York focuses on the surprising intersection of Jewish and Christian art in medieval Spain.Teaching Israel
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Rachel Hallote | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American professor of Israel Studies imparts perspective through, among other things, a large map.Arnold Beichman 1913-2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by John Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The exemplary life of an exemplary man of the century.How German Built Hebrew
Thursday, February 18, 2010 by DPA | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The enduring linguistic influence of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany for the Holy Land.
Judaica by DesignWednesday, February 17, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Art for art's sake"—the idea that works of art must be judged solely on their own terms, apart from any considerations of moral, religious, or civic value—has by now become largely devoid of meaning, especially as so many artists openly hitch their work to one or another of today's political wagons. But with the lapsing of the polarities to which the phrase once gave rise, in particular those between art and religion, it has also become possible for newer generations of artists to turn their talents unapologetically to religious motifs. The results, as several recent exhibits suggest, are both intriguing and markedly uneven. Reinventing Ritual, a show from last fall at the...
