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False FlagMonday, January 16, 2012 by Mark Perry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel gambled its friendship with the U.S. by having Mossad agents pose as American spies to recruit terrorists to fight their covert war against Iran.Straddling the Non-Existent Middle
Friday, January 13, 2012 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Too many young Zionists, with the best will of the world, want to stand on both sides of the question. A rejoinder to Erika Dreifus' Jewish Ideas Daily feature. Stained Glass Ceiling?
Friday, January 13, 2012 by Joanne Palmer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Women rabbis are shocked to have problems getting jobs. But is this because, as the (woman) head of a Conservative rabbinical school maintains, halakhah is an inherently male system?Spreading the Hebrew Word
Friday, January 13, 2012 by Gustavo D. Perednik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gauging a language's importance according to its number of native speakers would place Hebrew at number 70. Yet Hebrew has had an outsize influence on human language, and on Western civilization.A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Friday, January 13, 2012 by Michael A. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Mitt Romney certainly talks tough on Iran, European socialism, and Obama's abandonment of Israel. But would his foreign policy really be any different?
Human Rights and Religious WrongsFriday, January 13, 2012 by Jonathan Neumann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Although the discourse on human rights has a long pedigree, traceable at least to early modern natural rights theory and politics, the philosophical case for human rights against one alternative, religion, has yet to be made.
Friday, January 13, 2012 by Andrea Strongwater | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A wooden synagogue, a synagogue that hosted Zionist meetings, the first Reform temple with an organ: a slideshow of the artist's paintings of pre-World War II synagogues for a series of children's books.
Among the LiteratiThursday, January 12, 2012 by Erika Dreifus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Some days, I can't help thinking back 25 years to my high-school French course, which is where I first encountered the concept of the juste milieu—the happy medium—and the difficulty of achieving it. Why is the happy medium so elusive? Why do I more often feel caught betwixt and between or, even among my fellow Jewish-American writers, alone?
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
You can't understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help.Israel’s Indian Connection
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Marc Sloman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The highest-ranking Indian official in a decade is about to visit Israel. His trip is another step in India's 20-year journey out of Third World socialism.
