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Kafka Is the RageFriday, December 17, 2010 by Paul Reitter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A slew of new books claiming to burst the myths surrounding Franz Kafka engage in quite a bit of myth-building themselves.Rent Rants
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How to respond to a rabbinic manifesto in Israel prohibiting the rent or sale of apartments to non-Jews.Under a Cruel Star
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Heda Margolius-Kovaly, resilient survivor of both Nazism and Communism, author of an extraordinary 20th-century memoir, has died at the age of ninety-one.
Secularism and Its DiscontentsFriday, December 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The transformations of Jewish life in the last two-and-a-half centuries still boggle the mind. Deep ruptures opened to separate the present from the past, modernity from tradition, setting terms that have defined the contours of Jewish life until today. How did people try to think their way through the change?
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Eunice Lipton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Viewing the introspective work of the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) on its own, not through the lens of his murder in Auschwitz.Osnat’s Story
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Daniel F. Levin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How an American teen learned to navigate social isolation, hatred of group tours, love of his host country, and the embrace of an Israeli family and their homely daughter.Intelligence Succession
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
During the tenure of Meir Dagan, about to step down as director of Mossad, Syria's nuclear weapons program was destroyed
The Continuing War for SafedThursday, December 16, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Safed (Hebrew: Tsfat) is a picturesque town of 32,000 souls nestled in the hills of Galilee. It is also home to a hardline branch of the Islamic Movement looking for ways to undermine Jewish sovereignty.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Kevin J. Madigan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rather than canonizing the controversial Pius XII, perhaps the Church should be honoring his more courageous predecessor, Pius XI.Palestine Past
Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Palestine Exploration Fund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dozens of photos of the people and landscapes of 19th- and early-20th-century Palestine are now available online.
