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Whose Torah?Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a new book, a rabbi and a Catholic theologian collaborate to strip Judaism of its distinctively Jewish elements, and then to Christianize what remains.The Tao of a Tel Avivian
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Maya Sela | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the death of a scholar, editor, and publisher who celebrated Eastern religion, Western learning, and the first modern Hebrew city.
Dona Nobis PacemWednesday, January 20, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI made his first visit to Rome's synagogue. Clouding the occasion was the feeling among many that the Vatican has yet to make an honest reckoning with its conduct in World War II, a failure epitomized in the process under way to beatify Pius XII. Despite a papal visit to Israel and meetings with Jewish leaders, Benedict has seemed surprisingly maladroit in his dealings with the Jewish community. More is at work here than manners. For the Pope, a serious philosopher and intellectual, the truths of faith and the truths of reason are mutually reinforcing gifts of...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Anav Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No wonder the Gaza Freedom March featured so few Palestinians; in Gaza, they have no freedom.Egypt vs. Hamas: What Next?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Gamal A.G. Soltan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Cairo's policy of less accommodation and more pressure may backfire, pushing the radical Islamic organization into even greater adventurism.Speaking of Disproportionate Responses
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Peggy Shapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Compared with the personnel and resources others have sent to Haiti, Israel's response has indeed been disproportionate.
Ezekiel’s TombTuesday, January 19, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Twenty-five centuries have passed since exiled Jews first wept for Zion by the waters of Babylon. Today only eight Jews are left in Iraq. Their story is not as well known as that of their European brethren, but in the Babylonian Talmud, for starters, Babylon-Iraq was home to the most influential post-biblical book in Jewish history. That it would become so was due to the Geonim, another extraordinary set of Iraqi rabbis who flourished in early Islamic times and whose most significant figure was Saadya ben Joseph (882/892–942). After the Middle Ages, creativity extended outward as well, with Iraqi Jews founding other...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Larry Derfner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recent Iranian émigrés to Israel speak about their coreligionists' cautious approach both toward the Tehran regime and toward the opposition they mostly support.Sarah Palin, Joseph Lieberman
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Mark Silk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book on the McCain campaign records a somewhat garbled conversation between the governor of Alaska and the Connecticut Senator on faith, fate, and destiny.Cheap Heroism
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by David Hirsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A British sociologist idolized in Yoav Shamir's film Defamation protests: opposing Israeli human-rights abuses takes considerably less courage than opposing the excesses of Israel's critics.
