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Rabbi Who?Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A prominent rabbi in Israel has landed in hot water with his Orthodox colleagues for referring to the historical Jesus, admiringly, as a "model rabbi." This is not the first time that the American-born Shlomo Riskin, a long-time supporter of enhancing women's roles in Orthodoxy, has shown himself willing to push the religious envelope. Though he quickly qualified his reported remarks, this latest contretemps highlights not only internal debates within the rabbinic fraternity but also, more intriguingly, the changing shape of Jesus in the mind and imagination of contemporary Jews. On both sides, indeed, the dramatic diminishment over recent decades in official...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Paul Kujawsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent articles underline the fundamental legality of Israel's presence in the West Bank, whether or not Israel decides to stay there.What was Bothering Nehama Leibowitz?
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Judah S. Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A weeklong seminar lovingly and at times critically explored the legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential teachers of the Hebrew Bible.Backward from Authenticity
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To a hip pseudonymous blogger, the idea that authentic Jewishness is always and only about the personal is both untrue and unhip.Israel’s Cinema Comes of Age
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Hannah Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reviewing a breakout decade of Israeli movies.
Some Things Never Go AwayMonday, January 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Nine years ago, according to recent reports in the Israeli media, the head of the country's leading forensic institute admitted to having transplanted tissues and organs—corneas, skin, heart valves, and bones—from deceased Jews, Palestinians, and foreign workers. It seems that the families of the decedents, while consenting to autopsies, had not consented to transplants. The practice was halted and the physician dismissed from his post. Old news, then. But the exact nature of the doctor's past actions, limited if clearly unethical, was lost in the furor aroused by the surfacing of this old news in late December. In Britain, the Guardian...
Monday, January 4, 2010 by Cathal Kelly | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why are Israel's airport-security measures so effective and yet so relatively quick?The Coming Arab World
Monday, January 4, 2010 by Ezzedine Choukri Fishere | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Political illegitimacy, growing popular Islamism, rampant anti-rationalism: a triple whammy that will likely drive the Arab world into further belligerency.Out of Zion, Edutainment
Monday, January 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Writing anonymously, an Orthodox educator picks apart the steady dilution of Jewish learning in Israel's supposedly intensive "gap year" programs.Gen-X Zionist
Monday, January 4, 2010 by Greg Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American immigrant traces his journey from idealist, to ideologue, to sober celebrator of Zionist reality.
