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Half-ShabbosThursday, November 4, 2010 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does "big-tent" Orthodoxy have a place for teens who send text messages on the Sabbath?
The Next UN Security CouncilThursday, November 4, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israelis are not alone in rolling their eyes at the mere mention of the United Nations. Thanks to blocs of like-minded nations with interlocking leaderships and overlapping interests—the 53-member African Union, the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, the 118-member "non-aligned" movement—an anti-Western and anti-Zionist tyranny of the majority has long been assured.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 by Isabel Kershner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A mass wedding of 47 couples in Nablus marks the latest step toward rebranding the city as a model of stability in the West Bank.For Hebrew Sailors
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1773 Hebrew-English-Spanish lexicon includes a glossary of terms for life on the high seas.
The Jewish Saul BellowWednesday, November 3, 2010 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Does Saul Bellow (1915-2005) need an introduction? Nobel laureate, three-time National Book Award winner, famed for his capacious mind and his profoundly idiosyncratic, sky-reaching prose, a lifelong generator of personal and public controversy, Bellow was also the unrivaled paragon, during his life and after his death, of American Jewish letters. But readers of the massive new collection of the novelist's letters might be forgiven for wondering in what sense Bellow was a Jewish writer at all.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A well-known concert pianist, deported at age thirty-nine to Theresienstadt, Alice Sommer Herz is now, at one-hundred-six, the oldest living Holocaust survivor. (Video)Toldot: Why Can’t Esau be More like Jacob?
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Rebecca had a difficult pregnancy. "The children agitated within her, causing her to exclaim: If this is so, wherefore am I? So she went to inquire of God" (Genesis 25:22). Talmudic legend supplies the cause of the agitation: whenever she passed by an idolatrous temple, Esau would stir in her womb; whenever she passed by a study hall for Torah, Jacob would rouse himself. As the biblical text informs us, she learned from God that the twins she was carrying would become antagonists until, ultimately, the elder would come to serve the younger.Sin City on the Sea
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "truly diverse 21st-century Mediterranean hub," Tel Aviv ranks third among the world's top cities on the popular Lonely Planet website.The Crooked Finger of Anti-Semitism
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by Ruth R. Wisse | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A hatred so protean, resilient, and politically useful may never be entirely expunged; but that does not mean it is invulnerable.Escape Artist
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A New York exhibit is devoted to Erich Weiss, the rabbi's son who turned everyday objects into magical displays, and himself into the world's most famous magician.
