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Murder and SpinTuesday, March 15, 2011 by Gil Ronen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Sensational news from the Middle East usually dominates the world's media; by contrast, the Itamar massacre was downplayed when it was not outright distorted.On Writing as a Jew
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Cynthia Ozick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Accepting an award for lifetime achievement, the novelist and essayist Cynthia Ozick lays out two options for the American Jewish writer.The Art of Matrimony
Monday, March 14, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At New York's Jewish Museum, thirty exquisite marriage contracts provide a wealth of visual information about the communities in which they were created.150 Years of French Class
Monday, March 14, 2011 by Allen Ellenzweig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish and humanitarian, the Alliance Israélite Universelle took on the "civilizing" mission of French colonialism; a TV documentary tells the story, avoiding areas of gray.Doomed to Fail
Monday, March 14, 2011 by Aaron David Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
This is going to be a great year for Middle East peace initiatives, but likely a very bad one for Middle East peace.
Beyond TanksMonday, March 14, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel in the past has fought large-scale conventional wars in which infantry and tanks have squared off. It has also faced down terrorists who cross borders to blow up buses or hide themselves among civilians. The next wave is called hybrid warfare, blending (in the words of the military theorist Frank Hoffman) "the lethality of state conflict with the fanatical and protracted fervor of irregular warfare."
Monday, March 14, 2011 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From the fall of the Soviet Union, the free world should have learned a lesson about the power of popular dissidence; that lesson is still pertinent to the rebellions rocking the dictatorships of the Middle East.Pakistan’s Jewish Problem
Monday, March 14, 2011 by Tufail Ahmad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a country with no Jewish presence to speak of, opinion makers are deepening the anti-Semitic mindset that is typical across the Islamic world.
Purim PuzzlesFriday, March 11, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Purim, Judaism's strangest holiday (which this year falls on March 20), is prescribed by what may be the strangest book in the Hebrew Bible, the scroll (m'gilah) of Esther. Two public readings of the book, one at night and the other in the morning, tell a story of Persian palace intrigue in the fifth century B.C.E., a recitation accompanied by the holiday's decidedly unspiritual noisemaking, tippling, and masquerade.
Friday, March 11, 2011 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A powerful political divide separates Jews in Israel and in the United States—but the underlying issue isn't who's in power in Jerusalem, it's who's in power in Washington.
