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Whatever Happened to American Jewish Literature?Monday, January 4, 2010 by Scott Jaschick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's English departments offer courses in just about every ethnic literature—except one.An Anniversary
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Charles Krauthammer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the completion of a quarter-century of weekly columns, the redoubtable writer pronounces himself tan, rested, and ready for the new era.Reality Calls
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new study of Arab public opinion, a clear majority considers Iran a greater threat than Israel.Reverse Racism, Parisian-Style
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Corinne Mellul | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Obsessed with defining their national identity, the French are simultaneously paralyzed by the fear of being labeled Islamophobic.A Mooving Tale
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Eugene Scheel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sixty years ago, Morris Levy transported hundreds of pregnant Holsteins from Virginia to Israel to help jump-start the country's thriving dairy industry.Rootless Cosmopolitan
Monday, December 21, 2009 by Louis Menand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a long-in-the-making biography, Michael Scammell attempts to unravel the hectic life and multifarious work of Arthur Koestler.A Trace of the Occult
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Nathaniel Popper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exorcism ritual surfaces from the Cairo Genizah.Tearing the Fabric
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The hundreds of secular educators urging young Israelis to refuse military service have forfeited all right to denounce religious soldiers objecting to evacuating settlements.Sunset in Helena
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Ben Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The last Jews in an Arkansas river town.Au Revoir et Shalom
Saturday, December 19, 2009 by Ami Cammarella | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For an Israeli-born physician in Lille, life in France has become intolerable.