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Kosher FictionFriday, November 11, 2011 by Eitan Kensky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Haredi adventure stories are a curious but popular genre. There is the 2005 Yiddish-language film A gesheft ("A Deal"), the story of a Hasid-gone-bad out for revenge on the pious man he wrongly blames for his childhood misfortunes.
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visitor to Denmark describes the local Jewish community's struggles over mixed seating, kosher butter, and carrying umbrellas on Shabbat. The year? 1909.Release Marwan Barghouti
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Avinoam Bar-Yosef | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel isn't the only government afraid of releasing Palestinian terrorists. There's one whom Mahmoud Abbas would be happy to keep behind bars.Hitler’s Jewish Psychic
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Eddy Portnoy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hermann Steinschneider got his start giving mind-reading performances to his fellow Austrian soldiers. Little did they know, he'd been steaming open their mail . . .Persian Incursion
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Michael Peck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Want to know what would happen if Israel launched an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities? There's a board game for that.Empty Gestures
Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Emanuele Ottolenghi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even as Europeans routinely repeat "Never Again," their solemn commitment is not to prevent another Holocaust—it is rather to prevent war. Reeling
Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the tenth anniversary of her death, film critic Pauline Kael is receiving a stream of tributes that show how close to the bone her work still cuts.Right Turn?
Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Yitzhak Rabin is idolized by those who claim that Israel's population has become more conservative—a claim that Rabin's own record refutes.
The Holy Land of EnglandThursday, November 10, 2011 by Liam Hoare | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The King James Bible, along with the Book of Common Prayer, Shakespeare, and Milton, transformed the English language, introducing a vibrant lexicon that is used to this day. It also fused biblical mythology with concepts of English national identity.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Ronen Bergman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The rising cost of the life of an Israeli hostage, from the Entebbe raid to the Shalit deal.
