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The Kaufmann ProjectTuesday, May 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A survey, with images, of the life, the work, and the manuscript collection of a prodigious 19th-century Jewish scholar.Debating Iran
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Roger Cohen and Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the nature and intentions of the Islamic Republic, and what to do about them: a live faceoff.Was There an Exodus?
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Israel Finkelstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hershel Shanks interviews a controversial historian of biblical Israel.Under Swiss Eyes
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Simon Erlanger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A tiny fragment of Switzerland's population, Jews still bear the image of the essential Other against which Swiss identity has long defined itself.Painting Against the Grain
Monday, May 3, 2010 by Jonathan Beck | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A survivor of the Holocaust and Israel's War of Independence, Avigdor Arikha, who has died in Paris at eighty-one, turned away from abstraction to become a major figurative artist.
Isaac Rosenfeld and the New York IntellectualsMonday, May 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"We still don't understand what happened to the Jews of Europe, and perhaps we never will." Thus wrote the American intellectual and novelist Isaac Rosenfeld in the February 1948 issue of the New Leader. Arguing that in the wake of the Holocaust the familiar discussion of good and evil had become a useless exercise in nostalgia, he concluded: "Terror beyond evil, and joy beyond good: that is all there is to work with, whether we are to understand what has happened, or begin all over again." This was one of the earliest and still one of the most powerful attempts to...
Friday, April 30, 2010 by Matt Schudel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Memorializing Gedaliah Anemer, a rabbinic authority and neighborly father figure in the Jewish life of the capital.What Would Herzl Do?
Friday, April 30, 2010 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Alighting in modern Israel on his 150th birthday, the founding father reacts with amazement, consternation, and a dream.
Philosophy as a Way of LifeFriday, April 30, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Philosophy literally means "love of wisdom." Yet a glance at contemporary academic philosophy is enough to make one ask, "What's love got to do with it?" How could such dry, tedious, soulless verbal excursions ever have been meaningful to anyone, let alone some of the greatest minds in history? The answer is that in its origins philosophy was not an abstract theoretical enterprise but a way of being in the world--an exercise of reason in furtherance of a broader spiritual and moral regimen. Restoring this lost perspective was the work of the French intellectual historian Pierre Hadot, who died last week at...
Friday, April 30, 2010 by David Horovitz and Khaled Abu Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is the PA intent on sidestepping diplomacy, establishing a state with the help of the UN, and continuing the conflict?
