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Far from EnoughFriday, February 26, 2010 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the work of self-examination, religious Zionists must go beyond issues of sexual abuse.Nazism and Political Islam
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Jeffrey Herf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arabic-language broadcasts during World War II presage the violently anti-Semitic Islamism of recent decades.Unburying the Past
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Michael Freund | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Przemsyl, Poland, a centuries-old cemetery, most of its tombstones long plundered, has been returned to Jewish control.The All-Inclusive Holiday
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Shai Held | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Purim's religious themes comprehend, one by one, the teachings of every other holiday of the Jewish year.
WineFriday, February 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On Purim, which falls on Sunday, Jews are commanded, among other things, to drink. While all manner of intoxicants will do, pride of place has always gone to wine, humanity's favored escape from consciousness since the dawn of recorded time. Wine, the Psalmist wrote (104:15), "gladdens the human heart." That's not all it does—which may be why the Hebrew Bible has ten different words for alcoholic beverages. Wine was offered in the Temple in worship, refrained from by priests and ascetic Nazirites. The rabbis accorded it a prominent role in ritual, not only at Purim and Passover but also on the...
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Sandro Magister | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As Pope Benedict finishes his own biography of Jesus, an earlier Italian book about the founder of Christianity has just been republished. Its author: a chief rabbi of Rome who in 1945 would notoriously convert to Roman Catholicism.LollapaJooza in Long Beach
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Gordon Haber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can we please stop hearing about how "cool" it is to be Jewish?
AgnonThursday, February 25, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1966 a diminutive man, a large black kippah perched on his head, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His acceptance speech, delivered in the lilting cadences of his native Galicia, brimmed with allusions to holy texts, conjuring up an evanescent aura of piety and sacred longings. Yet underneath that kippah, and vibrating in the spaces between the ancient Hebrew words, was one of the most cunning minds and radical pens in Jewish literary history. Born Shmuel Yosef Czazkes in the town of Buczcacz, S. Y. Agnon, who died 40 years ago today at the age of eighty-one, moved to...
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Abby Wisse Schachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Creating a politically correct Purim means crowning a new heroine and trashing the old one.Memo to Dubai: Tell us More
Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Claudia Rosett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Police videos of the alleged assassins of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh are riveting, but where is Dubai's footage of the comings and goings of al-Mabhouh himself, not to mention other international terrorists?
