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Islamism, Veiled and UnveiledTuesday, September 14, 2010 by Paul Berman, Jeffrey Herf, and Marc Lynch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A review of The Flight of the Intellectuals draws two critiques, one by them by the author, and a reply by the reviewer.Lipstick Traces
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 by David Bogner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Remembering the old, worn, cloth-covered Birnbaum prayer books, their pages imprinted with kisses.
The Golem: Universal and ParticularTuesday, September 14, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The most famous and enduring of all Jewish legends is that of the golem, the artificial man. Indeed, with the possible exception of the demon Lilith, briefly pressed into service as a feminist icon, the golem remains the only post-biblical Jewish myth to be widely adopted by non-Jewish culture. Among its recent incarnations are a computer game that bears its name and the army of humanoids who populate James Cameron's film Avatar.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 by Herman Kieval | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The best-known ritual of the High Holy Day services has a paradoxical and controversial history. (1968; PDF)The Lord’s Songs
Monday, September 13, 2010 by Miles Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The classic melodies of the High Holy Day liturgy are largely unchanged, often very beautiful, and highly distinct from Western classical music.Has Physics Done Away with God?
Monday, September 13, 2010 by Stephen M. Barr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Stephen Hawking has declared the Creator to be out of a job. What are Jewish and Christian believers to make of that?A Blind Eye to Campus Anti-Semitism
Monday, September 13, 2010 by Kenneth L. Marcus | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The government's refusal to address the outrages on a California campus has created a legal anomaly in which Jews are treated differently from virtually any other group.The Next Great American Rabbi?
Monday, September 13, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Today's notable American rabbis are credited with many qualities, but widely recognized spiritual leadership does not seem to be one of them.
Orthodoxy and InnovationMonday, September 13, 2010 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For many religiously observant Jews, the traditional siddur, or prayer book, constitutes a problem. One such Jew was the great hasidic rebbe, Nahman of Bratzlav (1772-1810), who articulated the problem in terms appropriate to his time: the fixed prayers, with their praises and petitions, are like a well-traveled highway, and well-traveled highways attract robbers. By which he meant that excessive routine makes it difficult to concentrate the mind.
Monday, September 13, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why has Howard Jacobson, wildly popular at home, had such a hard time finding an American publisher for his latest novel?
