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Ezra Stiles and the JewsFriday, February 5, 2010 by Yitzchok Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The early American Hebraist and president of Yale became fascinated by a visiting Sephardi rabbi.The New One-Staters
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Gadi Taub | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A deadly alliance has formed between Westerners spouting "democracy" and Arab nationalists still bent on eliminating the Jewish state.The Fight Within
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Stewart Ain | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Charges that a left-wing Jewish fund was behind much of the "war crimes" information in the Goldstone Report have sparked a nasty internal debate.A Comer?
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Aluf Benn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Can a well-known journalist ride the Israeli public's disgust with politicians to a successful political career?Philosophical Evil
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Mark Blitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Martin Heidegger was an active Nazi; whether his thought can be altogether tied to his Nazism remains an open question.Keffiyeh Wars
Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Craig Nelson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
First hummus, now headscarfs: an American company aims to reclaim the Middle Eastern roots of the Jewish people.
Buses and BoundariesThursday, February 4, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
This morning, Israel's Supreme Court reconvenes on the matter of "mehadrin" buses: public transportation in which women are expected, ostensibly on a voluntary basis, to enter from and sit in the back. The Court's hearing is in response to a decision earlier this week by the Transportation Ministry to grant formal recognition to such bus lines, several dozen of which now operate. Powerful segments of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community argue that such segregation is the only way to insure appropriate modesty (tzni'ut) between the sexes. The degree to which Haredim in general agree with this position is not entirely clear, but the...
TabletsWednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A few days ago, Apple released yet another new device aimed at integrating words written, spoken, and seen, and freeing them from the limitations of time and space. It joins an array of other products making texts and audio-video materials available as never before. Is anything being lost here? The Talmud declares: "Written words should not be spoken, and spoken words should not be written." What the rabbis specifically sought to impress on Jewish minds was the difference between the Written Torah, fixed, immutable, divine, and the constantly accreting commentaries known as the Oral Torah, spontaneous, dynamic, human yet also somehow partaking of...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Brian Whitaker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Describing his new book, a British journalist outlines the deep-rooted obstacles to change in Arab society and why he thinks that, in time, they may yet be overcome.The Shiddukh Crisis
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Corinne Ramey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Having delayed marriage, many young Orthodox Jews now find themselves adrift, or wedding and divorcing in haste.
