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Interfaith NuptialsWednesday, August 4, 2010 by Jeffrey Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
However irrelevant theology may have become to growing numbers of Americans, Judaism and Christianity cannot easily be blended like eggs and oil into a religious mayonnaise.Obama’s Arabia
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by David Keyes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is the President pushing a huge arms deal with a regime that tramples on human rights and shouldn't be trusted with a toothpick?Bearing Witness
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A reissued novel by the centenarian Hans Keilson delves into the moral disorientation of a Jew in a society suddenly gone sick with anti-Semitism.Still Wandering
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Derek Kravitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Over its 134 years, the metamorphoses undergone by Washington, D.C.'s first synagogue have included being torn from its foundation and moved, inch by inch.
The Kook PerplexWednesday, August 4, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In late May, a file began to circulate on the Internet of a lengthy and hitherto-unknown work by Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), one of the greatest and most consequential of modern Jewish thinkers. Though he died 75 years ago, Kook's provocative ideas still play a pivotal role in contemporary Israeli political and religious debates, and the long-playing controversies surrounding his literary estate reflect something of the aura of his mystical personality and teachings. This latest revelation, and the round of polemics spurred by it, illustrate some enduringly high-voltage issues within Jewish life today.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 by Lisa Moses Leff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The fictional works produced by 19th-century French Jews suggest how they found ways to maintain their distinctiveness even as they embraced modernity.Inventing Our Life
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by Toby Perl Freilich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A documentary film examines the kibbutz movement at one-hundred, from its rocky past to its uncertain present and surprisingly hopeful future. (Video; a five-part series)
Violent DiversionsTuesday, August 3, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Time and again, troubles within the Arab world have increased the chances of aggression against Israel. Case in point: Hizballah's assassination of Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, the country's chief Sunni figure, on February 14, 2005, resulted in a period of severe political pressure on the terrorist Shi'ite movement and its Syrian ally, presumed complicit in the murder. Only when Hizballah sent its gunmen across the border into Israel on July 12, 2006, seizing two Israeli soldiers and sparking a 34-day conflagration, was world attention diverted from the crime and could Hizballah buy the time it needed to solidify its position...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by Peter Berkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By now, the report's factual and legal findings have been thoroughly discredited; but a larger problem remains, and it affects every liberal democracy in the world.Jewish Jazz
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 by Howard Reich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the age of eighty-nine, Dave Brubeck talks about the arc between spirituality and jazz, and why as a non-Jew he has been inspired to create "Jewish music."
