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The New Jewish SoundFriday, November 18, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Richard Wagner famously dismissed Jewish music as "mongrelized," a musically incoherent product assembled from many disparate influences. But for many modern Jewish musicians, this "mongrel" character is a point of pride, the feature that allows Jewish music to absorb and reflect the musical experience of the world.
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Rami G. Khouri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The real story in the Arab world is about the revival of sovereignty, seen in the uncharacteristically decisive Arab League suspension of Syria.From Haran to Hebron
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Moshe Gilad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One anthropologist is on a campaign to mark the 1,200 kilometer path traveled by the patriarch Abraham through Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Israel.Treacherous Texts
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Benjamin Balint | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The amazing and enduring power of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has little to do with the mind of its forgers and everything to do with the avidity of its consumers.
Israeli Intransigence? Try Palestinian RejectionismThursday, November 17, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The conventional wisdom in diplomatic and media circles concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict is that Israeli intransigence—especially on the building of West Bank settlements—is the dead weight that prevents the achievement of a two-state solution.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Adam Nicolson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The first editions of the King James Bible were littered with mistakes. One left out a crucial word in Exodus 20:14, to read "thou shalt commit adultery"—an error for which the printers were heavily fined.Truth from an Unlikely Source
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Conrad Black | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The new country of South Sudan has taken its place squarely with the Jewish state and attacked the Arab-led conspiracy against Israel in international organizations.Free Market Rabbinate
Thursday, November 17, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Competition for marriage registration in Israel would foster religious expression and provide a positive alternative to the Chief Rabbinate's counterproductive monopoly.In Concert
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Stuart Low | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How to characterize the work of composers like Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Mahler, in which Jewish folk tunes and Bible stories are blended with Christian themes?
On the Road AgainWednesday, November 16, 2011 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The chronically tense relations between the Israeli government and Bedouins in the Negev—where unrecognized villages are built, razed, and built again—are certain to grow even more tense with the Israeli Cabinet's recent approval of a plan that will recognize about half these villages but demolish the other half.
