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From Our Archives: Who’s Against a Two-State Solution?Thursday, April 21, 2011 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Two states, living side by side in peace and security." This, in the words of President Barack Obama, is the solution to the century-long conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East. Washington is fully and determinedly on board. So are the Europeans. Successive governments of the state of Israel have shown their support for the idea. So far, there is—just as there has always been—only one holdout.From Our Archives: In Memoriam Abraham Sutzkever
Thursday, April 21, 2011 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It was bound to happen. Abraham Sutzkever, born July 15, 1913, in Smorgon, Lithuania, one of the great poets of the twentieth century and the last towering figure of modern Yiddish literature, died January 20, 2010, in Tel Aviv, where he had lived since 1947. During World War II, when Sutzkever was herded into the ghetto with the rest of Vilna Jewry, he determinedly continued composing, persuaded that "the angel of poetry" protects the creator of timeless—but only of truly timeless—work.From Our Archives: The Soul and the Machine
Thursday, April 21, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The astounding growth of the Internet, computer technology, and artificial intelligence is a commonplace of our time; so is the challenge each poses to familiar ways of commerce and culture, and even to our basic understandings of humanity. Some of the farthest reaches of these developments are expressed in the "singularity" envisioned by the futurologist Raymond Kurzweil.
Not Marc ChagallThursday, April 21, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the annals of modernist art, three European Jewish names stand out: Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Amedeo Modigliani. A fourth should be added. This is Emmanuel Mané Katz. Born in 1894 to a traditional Jewish family in the Ukraine, he moved to Paris at the age of nineteen to pursue a career as a painter, and there joined the three more fabled artists named above. Together, they have been loosely called "the School of Paris."
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Diane Cole | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not only are more and more non-Jews seated at seder tables, but an increasing number of churches have been offering their own versions of the ritual—with their own messages.The Heirs of Nasser
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Michael Scott Doran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Just like Egypt in the Nasserite uprisings of the 1950s, Iran and Syria today will try to turn the anarchy in the Middle East into a unified anti-Western, anti-Israel campaign.Correcting the Bible
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Marc B. Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reunited with the "Crown of Aleppo," the religious community now possesses the textually most perfect Bible in existence. Yet to most it seems only of historical interest.
Eichmann Goes DigitalMonday, April 18, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This year, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Eichmann trial, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, together with the Israel State Archives, has posted to YouTube an extraordinary series of videos: over 200 hours of courtroom sessions and testimonies in the original Hebrew, German, and Yiddish, as well as a parallel set with English voiceover. What do they tell us?
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Efraim Inbar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "peace initiative" like the one Israel is under pressure to present is likely to be based on a paradigm that simply doesn't work.An Unstill Life
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Joel Schechter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Charlotte Salomon worked feverishly on gouaches that bear witness to her own inner turmoil and to the mounting German horror that eventually claimed her life. (With slideshow)
