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Taba via TroubleWednesday, May 9, 2012 by Yuval Ben-Ami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Disregarding Israel's severe travel warning, one journalist ventures—with his camera—into the Sinai Peninsula. (Photographs)Foolish, but Consistent
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There are groups that advocate for allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount and there are groups that advocate for freedom of worship at the Kotel. But each group views these "rights" selectively.
Gershom Scholem, 30 Years OnTuesday, May 8, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Thirty years after his death at age 84, Gershom Scholem casts a long shadow. The field he created, the modern study of Jewish mysticism, has grown beyond him, yet his work remains the indispensable foundation.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Ben Birnbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In recent years, Salam Fayyad has shaken more hands, kissed more babies, and cut more red ribbons than any Palestinian official. Presidential aspirations or no, it's enough for Fatah to feel threatened.The Reality of Race
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Jon Entine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Historical analysis now depends not only on pottery shards, flaking manuscripts, and faded coins, but on something far less ambiguous: DNA. And the study of Jewish DNA yields some surprising findings.Search on a Centennial
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Ben Sales | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One hundred years ago, Yosef Haim Brenner sold a pair of suspenders to fund the publication of S.Y. Agnon's first book—copies of which are now actively sought after.Where’s the Outcry over Palestinian Censorship?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by David Keyes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas has arrested journalists and jailed bloggers. In the West Bank, slander of high-ranking officials is punishable by up to two years in prison. Where is the world's outrage?
Our Zoroastrian MomentMonday, May 7, 2012 by Shai Secunda | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The great contemporary scholar of religion Jonathan Z. Smith once remarked that the omnipresent substructure of human thought lies in the human capacity to make comparisons. In ancient Sumer, scribes crafted intricate similes.
Monday, May 7, 2012 by Tom Streithorst | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Homeland is a hit not only with the press but with the president—though unlike the Israeli show on which it is based, it doesn't have a clue about terrorism, national security, Iraq, or the CIA.Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?
Howard Jacobson, Geraldine Brooks, A.B. Yehoshua, Shalom Auslander, Walter Mosley, Etgar Keret, André Aciman, Nathan Englander, Nadia Kalman, and others answer.
