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Righteous Among This NationThursday, April 28, 2011 by Michael Berenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is the great untold story of the Holocaust that of the Jews who put their lives at even more acute risk to rescue other Jews?The Moralist
Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Asa Kasher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The man who helps set the Israel Defense Force's ethical parameters explains what to do when one's opponents do not follow the rules of war. (Interview by David Horovitz)Art from the Right?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Eliaz Cohen's poems are far from an example, let alone a vindication, of right-wing art.From Our Archives: Science, Faith, and Biblical Archeology
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Biblical archeology was born out of twinned desires: to "illuminate" the world of the Bible and, ultimately, to prove the truth of the Word. Armed with a trowel in one hand and a Bible in the other, 19th-century archeologists in the Holy Land, most of them Protestant clergymen, had little difficulty finding what they were looking for.From Our Archives: Sin City on the Sea?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tel Avivians are rubbing their eyes these days. Until lately so little thought of by the world that many tourists to Israel never bothered to visit it at all, their city is suddenly high on the places-to-be lists. Of course, one needs to read the fine print. It's not for its beauty that Tel Aviv is being praised by National Geographic and the Lonely Planet.
Easter, Passover, and the West Side Story that Wasn’tWednesday, April 27, 2011 by Elliott Horowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Late in 1948, in the early stages of his collaboration with Jerome Robbins on the musical that would become West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein wrote in his diary: "Jerry R. called today with a noble idea: a modern version of Romeo and Juliet set in slums at the coincidence of Easter-Passover celebrations. Feelings run high between Jews and Catholics. . . . "
Friday, April 22, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Aside from a small circle of students and admirers, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag was an unknown figure at his death in 1954. Today, religious schools and New Age "educational centers" around the world are actively spreading his ideas, and his writings are being analyzed by professors and graduate students. After spending an hour in the rabbi's stone mausoleum, the pop-diva Madonna emerged with tears in her eyes.
How the Likud Came to BeFriday, April 22, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Benjamin Netanyahu no doubt took comfort from a recent survey showing that 76 percent of Likud members opposed annexing all of Judea and Samaria. Yet he would also have known that 10,000 party recruits had been newly signed up by uncompromising settler leaders. How to keep the Likud ("Union") together and in the center of Israel's political mainstream?
Friday, April 22, 2011 by The Editors | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Around the world this weekend, Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter, the holiday marking the death and resurrection of Jesus and the culmination of the period of penitence that began with Ash Wednesday. To this day there is no denying that, for many Jews, Easter recalls dreadful memories.From Our Archives: Whatever Happened to Moses Mendelssohn?
Friday, April 22, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The great German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1781) was and remains a perplexing, rather sad, enigma. One of Jewish history's most original philosophers, he was also a valiant pioneer of European Jewry's struggle for acceptance into the larger society. Yet within a generation after his death he was already an obscure figure, and is now almost entirely forgotten.
