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Unauthorized AutobiographyTuesday, July 20, 2010 by Jeff Barak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli television personality Yair Lapid has written—in the first-person posthumous—the life story of his father Tommy, a famous political figure and journalist.Call Me by My Name
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Kim Willsher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two generations ago, Jewish immigrants to France Gallicized their surnames; today, some of their descendants are reclaiming the originals.
Tisha b’Av NowMonday, July 19, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Tomorrow is Tisha b'Av, the traditional day of fasting and lamentation for the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the sorrows of Jewish history. But ours is a moment of unprecedented Jewish sovereignty and unparalleled Jewish prosperity. And so, many are asking, why bother?
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Tony Badran | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the Iranian regime, dissociating the Arab peoples from their governments remains a vital aim; in Lebanon, through Hizballah, the effort is succeeding.The Rationalist
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Sami Peretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On his 80th birthday, the Nobel laureate Robert Aumann pronounces on the Turkish flotilla, the American bank rescue, the Arab-Israel war, and his relations with his wife and children.Hillel’s Tent
Monday, July 19, 2010 by E.B. Solomont and Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Jewish student organization is determined to be open to diverse views and to reach out to the unaffiliated; some say it lacks backbone and neglects the middle for the fringe.Wunderkind
Monday, July 19, 2010 by Kobi Nahshoni | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A fourteen-year-old prodigy is allowed to take the exam for rabbinic ordination in Israel, but the results won't count.Hatikvah at Bergen-Belsen
Monday, July 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
April 20, 1945: for a BBC broadcast, emaciated survivors of the Nazi death camp defiantly sing the Jewish national anthem. (Audio)
The Other TalmudFriday, July 16, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Jewish classic known as much for its obscurity as for its great significance took another step into the light this spring with the online publication of its oldest and most reliable version. The classic is the Jerusalem Talmud, and the version is a parchment manuscript, known as the Leiden manuscript, written in 1289 by a Jewish scholar and copyist in Rome.
Friday, July 16, 2010 by David Dagan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On some kibbutzim, capitalist ends are served by socialist means.
