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A Jewish Moment of TruthFriday, March 4, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon and Hadassah Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The adaptation of religious law (halakhah) to the needs of exile preserved the Jews for 2,000 years; why can't Judaism rise to the challenge of a sovereign state?Facebook War over Qatar
Friday, March 4, 2011 by L. Barkan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the social-media site, a vociferous campaign calls for revolution against the regime of the Emir, a "traitorous agent of the Jews."A Fork in J Street?
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Alana Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Five signs that the organization's days as a Washington lobby are over and that its future, if it has one, will be as an activist group à la Peace Now.Architect of Joy
Friday, March 4, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contravening the dictates of modernism, the "super-shlock" work of Morris Lapidus was designed to make people happy—and it does.
The Odessa FileFriday, March 4, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Undoubtedly the most searing image of the port city of Odessa on the Black Sea is Sergei Eisenstein's reconstruction of a bloody massacre on its famed "Potemkin Steps" in his epic silent film, Battleship Potemkin (1925).
Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the latest eruption of anti-Jewish slurs and the excitement of being at the center of so many different and maniacal fantasies.The Blue & the Gray
Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Jonathan D. Sarna | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Civil War was a key episode in the evolving relationship between the Jews and America; why are today's Jews positively uninterested in exploring it?On Post-Ethnic Judaism
Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A social phenomenon celebrated by some observers spells disaster for the future of American Jewry.No Balancing Act
Thursday, March 3, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For young athletes with a strong Jewish identity, tradition will always trump sports, even if it means losing a competition.
The Virtuoso of JudaismThursday, March 3, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Religious virtuosity comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to reconcile seeming irreconcilables, like faith and freedom, piety and intellect, revelation and science. The dream of synthesis has lured many in the past two centuries. One who seemed to live it was Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
