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The ThrowbackTuesday, May 3, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Will Egypt enjoy a more democratic future? The prominence of Amr Moussa, an anti-Western, anti-Israel demagogue who will likely be the country's next president, suggests otherwise.Reading the Holocaust
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An ordered guide to what is essential in the vast corpus of Holocaust literature.Where Dialogue Ends
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Osama bin Laden's death was publicly mourned by the leadership of Hamas in Gaza. If "dialogue" has a limit, this is it.An Idea in Need of Repair
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by Jonathan Neumann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today, the term tikkun olam is invoked on behalf of causes as diverse as toxic-waste disposal and intermarriage. What is its origin, and what does it really mean? (PDF) Trivializing the Holocaust
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The impulse to turn the Holocaust into a metaphor for intolerance, far from making genocide unthinkable, has helped make it seem as commonplace as schoolyard bullying.Is This the Palestinian Revolution?
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Obama administration cannot accept the Fatah-Hamas deal, and must either hope the pact falters or consider new strategies.The Legacy of John Paul II
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Daniel Shoer Roth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The future pope's contact with a vibrant Jewish community during his Polish childhood is what prompted him to lead the Church toward reconciliation with Jews and a relationship with Israel.What are the Ezekiel Plates?
Monday, May 2, 2011 by David Parsons and Florence Bache | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A set of 66 stone tiles may, or may not, be among the oldest existing biblical texts ever found.
Calibrating DarknessMonday, May 2, 2011 by Henry Tylbor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and then of Auschwitz and Majdanek, Henry Tylbor (1929–2009) eventually settled in New York where he wrote and taught. A polymath, and fluent in several languages, he was especially interested in the fields of linguistics, neuropsychology, the sociology of culture, and their intersections. The present work of autobiographical fiction is among the manuscripts left at his death. In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it appears here for the first time.—The Editors
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Israel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever the controversial expeditions in the City of David turn out to have yielded, they have definitively exposed the baselessness of Palestinian claims about the site.
