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SupermarioTuesday, January 12, 2010 by Avner Avrahami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Romanian-born Israeli astrophysicist and Renaissance man, who now spends twelve hours a day working on the Hubble telescope, dilates on God, the golden ratio, the Israeli education system, the romance of mathematics, and much more.The Tel Aviv Cluster
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by David Brooks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's technological success marks the fruition of the Zionist dream; could it also contribute to its undoing?Evgeny Kissin Takes On the BBC
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In an open letter, the world-famous pianist charges a news service that once served as "a beacon of light, of truth and objectivity to those of us behind the Iron Curtain" with "aligning itself with Iran's despotic leader" against Israel and with "anti-Semitic propaganda."Swamped with Singles
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Yael Brygel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Young, religious, and unmarried: a celebrated, groundbreaking television series explores life in a vibrant and frustrated Jerusalem neighborhood.
Was Dostoevsky a Scoundrel?The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), rightly known as a peerless master of psychological fiction, a fierce anti-socialist polemicist, an anti-romantic with a pulsingly romantic commitment to prophetic religion, and a dramatist of moral ideas without compare since the English poet John Milton, also happened to harbor an ugly fixation on the Jews.
Jewish Wars, Then and NowMonday, January 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A masterwork of historical writing, The Jewish Wars by Yosef ben Matityahu, better known by his Roman name of Flavius Josephus (37–ca. 100 C.E.) is a massive and indispensable chronicle of Jewish fortunes from the Hasmonean Revolt in the second century B.C.E. through the destruction of the Temple and the fall of Masada in 73 C.E. It is also the autobiography of an extraordinary and extraordinarily conflicted man. Military leader, historian, biblical interpreter, negotiator, diplomat, neither martyr nor traitor but something in-between, Josephus traversed a route from battlefield commander in the war against Rome to Roman citizen and favored beneficiary of imperial...
Monday, January 11, 2010 by Itamar Eichner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over 7,000 members of Bnai Menashe, ethnic Indians claiming descent from one of the ten Lost Tribes, are formally converting to Judaism and moving to Israel. Their story has been told by Hillel Halkin in his book, Across the Sabbath River.Never Lost, Case Closed
Monday, January 11, 2010 by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An isolated crypto-Jewish community in northern Portugal has somehow retained its genetic identity for centuries.Radicalization 101
Monday, January 11, 2010 by Douglas Murray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Outside Waziristan, the U.K.'s universities offer the most conducive environment an Islamic extremist could wish to inhabit.My God, Elohai
Monday, January 11, 2010 by Kobi Oz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Discovering tapes of his Tunisian grandfather's self-performed songs of religious devotion, an Israeli singer and band leader enters into a haunting musical dialogue with tradition.
