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The Trouble with HitchensFriday, December 16, 2011 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When Christopher Hitchens passed away yesterday at the age of 62, the encomia started pouring in almost immediately. Most of this praise is deserved, as the acumen of Hitchens's muscular criticism and the wit of his ripostes will be with us for a long time to come.
Friday, December 16, 2011 by Adam Chandler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hebrew Union College prides itself on being open and pluralistic. But some Reform rabbinical students say the reality contradicts this vision—particularly on the matter of Israel.Wrong Assumptions
Thursday, December 15, 2011 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new report on intermarriage provides no evidence that the supposed cold shoulder that intermarried families receive is the cause of their staggeringly high rates of non-affiliation.Revoking Ordination
Thursday, December 15, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A doctor's license can be suspended and a lawyer can be disbarred. Is there any recourse against a malpracticing rabbi?Broken Barometers
Thursday, December 15, 2011 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Linus Pauling scoffed at Dan Shechtman: "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." Now Shechtman has collected his Nobel Prize—and Hillary Clinton should take heed.Sound Tracks
Thursday, December 15, 2011 by Haim O. Rechnitzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The so-called authentic Hebrew pronunciation that prevailed in Israel's schools was simply a version of the Ashkenazic speakers' attempt to sound more Sephardic.
The Stoic Vision of Ludwig BlumThursday, December 15, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Sometimes an artist is more popular with the public than with critics and fellow artists because the artist appeals to a popular taste that is simply unrefined. Sometimes, though, the public is on to something that the cultural elites miss.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 by Arieh O’Sullivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A cave near Tel Aviv may offer up evidence that modern man first emerged not in Africa but in the Middle East—because of a scarcity of elephant meat.Vayeishev: “They went that-a-way!”
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Arlo Guthrie, the Jewish folk singer, likes to call him "the 'they-went-that-a-way' guy." He is the man who tells Joseph where to find his brothers. If Joseph did not find them, Guthrie points out, his brothers would have no opportunity to throw him into a pit and he would not have been sold down to Egypt.Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 by Karen Abbott | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Could a member of the Union Army "despise and reject the Savior of men . . . and yet be a fit minister of religion"?
