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Laid-Back IsraelFriday, June 3, 2011 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A scientific study has concluded that a certain highly threatened society on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean comports itself, improbably enough, like a Mediterranean society.
Jews and CapitalismFriday, June 3, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Why are so many Jews discomfited by capitalism—and not merely by the caricature of capitalism as rapacious speculation and exploitative profiteering but by the very idea of organizing an economy along free-market lines?
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A window onto the beleaguered and despised Jewish community of Hebron. (With photos)Durban III: No, But . . .?
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Washington's decision to pull out of the UN's upcoming reprise of the anti-Israel Durban I and II is a welcome move; but the Durban illness runs deep, and now comes the hard part.Beyond Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform
Friday, June 3, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's denominations look very different from yesterday's, but the synagogue remains the most significant institution in American Jewish life
We Were the FutureThursday, June 2, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few uniquely Israeli institutions have ever held the world's imagination like the kibbutz: a radical Jewish experiment in communal living, social justice, economic egalitarianism, and the reorganization of family life. Indeed, perhaps the most radical innovation of all was the "children's house" (beit y'ladim).
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Fouad Ajami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish statehood was furthered by the UN vote in 1947, but the Zionist project had already prevailed; the Palestinian national movement is a different story altogether.Young Rabbis and Israel
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
That some rabbinical students (and their elders) are turning against the Jewish state is a deeply distressing fact; the question is why.The Persistence of Hate
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Ray Fisman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are anti-Semitic attitudes transmitted across not only generations but centuries? According to a comparative study of two German communities, the answer may be yes.Banning Circumcision
Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Yitzchok Adlerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Efforts to criminalize circumcision are an attack not on Jews but on religion, opposition to which is growing more militant even in religion-friendly America.
