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Speaking of Disproportionate ResponsesTuesday, January 19, 2010 by Peggy Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Compared with the personnel and resources others have sent to Haiti, Israel's response has indeed been disproportionate.
Ezekiel’s TombTuesday, January 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Twenty-five centuries have passed since exiled Jews first wept for Zion by the waters of Babylon. Today only eight Jews are left in Iraq. Their story is not as well known as that of their European brethren, but in the Babylonian Talmud, for starters, Babylon-Iraq was home to the most influential post-biblical book in Jewish history. That it would become so was due to the Geonim, another extraordinary set of Iraqi rabbis who flourished in early Islamic times and whose most significant figure was Saadya ben Joseph (882/892–942). After the Middle Ages, creativity extended outward as well, with Iraqi Jews founding other...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Larry Derfner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent Iranian émigrés to Israel speak about their coreligionists' cautious approach both toward the Tehran regime and toward the opposition they mostly support.Sarah Palin, Joseph Lieberman
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Mark Silk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on the McCain campaign records a somewhat garbled conversation between the governor of Alaska and the Connecticut Senator on faith, fate, and destiny.Cheap Heroism
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by David Hirsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A British sociologist idolized in Yoav Shamir's film Defamation protests: opposing Israeli human-rights abuses takes considerably less courage than opposing the excesses of Israel's critics.Egypt vs. Hamas: What Next?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Gamal A.G. Soltan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Cairo's policy of less accommodation and more pressure may backfire, pushing the radical Islamic organization into even greater adventurism.
Soul FoodMonday, January 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A widely-circulated article points to the growing popularity of kosher food among non-Jews in the United States. In Europe, meanwhile, the campaign for animal welfare has revived old charges of Jewish carnality, and a number of countries have gone so far as to ban kosher slaughtering. Articulating both the meaning of kashrut and its many regulations has challenged Jewish thinkers, Maimonides among them, for millennia. Today, some Jews find in the tradition's dietary discipline an inspiration for a contemporary ethics of consumption. Others promote, alongside traditional strictures, a system of ethical certifications of kosher products. In the end, though, kashrut may...
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Gidi Grinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The international effort to isolate and delegitimize Israel poses as great a strategic threat as the effort to destroy it militarily, and requires no less effective a strategic response.All in the Mind
Monday, January 18, 2010 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thought-controlled technology creates new challenges for Jewish law.L’Affaire Ayalon
Monday, January 18, 2010 by George Jonas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Turkish anti-Semitism meets an inept Israeli diplomat; nobody wins.
