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Mormons for IsraelThursday, May 27, 2010 by Mark Paredes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The church has a record, often forgotten today, of continuous support for the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
It’s MagicThursday, May 27, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Spirituality," a key phrase of our time, suggests a yearning for contact with an ungraspable realm beyond earthly experience. Yet for most of history, the spiritual realm was deemed eminently graspable indeed—as is evidenced by a fascinating exhibit now in Jerusalem.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An acclaimed master of the French Canadian literary scene offers a unique Iraqi-Jewish viewpoint on life.The Perpetrators
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A long-awaited book by the German scholar Peter Longerich is a clear, accessible, and authoritative history of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews.Is Baseball a Zionist Sport?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Theodor Herzl would have endorsed the playful utopianism of a game struggling to take root in Israel.
Measuring JewsWednesday, May 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1882, there were 24,000 Jews in the land of Israel, a tenth as many as in the United States at the time and a mere 0.3 percent of the world Jewish population. Today, a decade into the 21st century, Israel is solidifying its place as the cultural and demographic hub of Jewish life. Out of 13 million Jews worldwide, 5.7 million live in Israel, as opposed to an estimated 5.5 million in the U.S. Roughly 60 percent of Jewish Israelis are now native-born; fifty years ago, the same percentage was foreign-born. Despite an average monthly wage of but $2,100.00, most...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tariq Ramadan is only the latest in a long line of extremists whom Western governments have myopically tried to co-opt.Free Speech and the Knesset
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why the right-wing Speaker of the House has vigorously opposed a move to revoke the immunity of Arab members who visited Libya.Reclaiming a Cochin Synagogue
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A massive restoration project will refurbish one of the oldest and most beautiful houses of worship in the heart of what was once Jewish India.
Israel’s Home FrontTuesday, May 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At precisely 11 A.M. tomorrow, May 26, the sirens of war will echo throughout Israel. The army is conducting its annual week-long series of home-front drills to prepare the police, hospitals, emergency services, volunteer agencies, and civilians to cope with the possibility of an unprecedented onslaught of rockets or missiles laden with high explosives or chemical warheads. Authorities are presenting the exercise as routine. Although civilians who can do so have been instructed to enter a protected area like a communal bomb shelter or private reinforced-concrete room, those for whom participation in the drill would cause "unreasonable disruption" have been advised...
