Search Results
You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.
The Month of ReturnTuesday, August 14, 2012 by Tevi Troy and Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Jewish month of Av will soon become Ellul, and mourning for the destruction of the Temples will give way to repentance for our sins. It is time for introspection; and, as we contemplate our relationships with others and with the Divine, questions about penitence, forgiveness, change, and mortality itself inevitably arise.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by David Ignatius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The dismissal of Egyptian General Murad Muwafi eliminates a former negotiator with Israel and demonstrates the Muslim Brotherhood’s increasing control over the military. Sacred Spa(ce)
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by Allison Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Imagine a place where Jews can go in times of illness, mourning, divorce, gender reassignment; to think about intimacy, body image, fertility . . . . Meet the new mikveh.Cast a Cold Eye
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by Akin Ajayi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Breaking ranks with his Egyptian-Jewish father, popular philosopher Alain de Botton admits that religion might have something to teach atheists: pessimism. Selling Out
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by Seth Chalmer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“Jewish communal contributions should be more like a married couple pooling their salaries for groceries, and less like a crowd of strangers ordering their own lunches.”Survival in Buchenwald
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by Brad Rothschild | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When the SS came looking for Jews on Kinderblock 66, Antonin Kalina told them there were no more. (He had listed them as Christians . . .) Losing the Shadow War
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by Christopher Dickey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite last month’s attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, Iran’s covert operatives are being foiled at virtually every turn by their Israeli and American counterparts.
