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Rubik Rosenthal, WordsmithWednesday, December 9, 2009 by Gilad Zukerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rosenthal’s new Dictionary of Hebrew Phrases, containing 18,000 entries on current Israeli idioms, is both enlightening and a delight to read. It also answers two questions: Who are the Israelis? And where have they come from?Wanted: A Palestinian “Peace Now”
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Khaled ibn Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the nearly two decades since the signing of the Oslo Accords, no grassroots peace camp has been discernible in either Ramallah or Gaza City.Bostoner Rebbe Dies
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born hassidic rebbe, split his time between Boston and Jerusalem, reached out to unaffiliated Jews, and was opposed to territorial concessions in the land of Israel.A Convenient Anti-Semitic Theme
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Rifat Bali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Examining the belief that the massacres of Armenians in World War I were the result of a secret Jewish-Zionist-Freemason plot, and naming those, on different sides, who have benefited from spreading it.How Not to Fix the Middle East
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Martin Kramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By its reluctance to uphold American primacy in the region, the administration has created a perilous vacuum of power.Kashrut: A Matter of Law, not Morality
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Daniel Alter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unethical meat processors are no different from unethical merchants; keeping kosher is about something else entirely.
A Talmud for TodayTuesday, December 8, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In Israel and the United States, high-level Talmud study thrives today with an intensity unmatched since the days of the great East European yeshivot. Yet to most English readers the Talmud, the essential Jewish compendium of legal and narrative discussion, remains a closed book—or rather 63 books. All the more reason, then, to welcome a new and expertly edited 900-page selection from the “sea of the Talmud.” What if a dip into the ocean doesn’t suffice? Two English-language editions have come to the aid of the student unversed in the original languages or modes of rabbinic reasoning: a partial translation...
Festival of LightsMonday, December 7, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hanukkah, the eight-day holiday whose Hebrew dates are 25 Kislev - 2 Tevet, begins this year on the evening of December 11. It commemorates an ancient victory at once military, political, social, and religious. Militarily, the victory, which took place in Judea in 165 B.C.E., saw the routing of the forces of the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes by a rebel Jewish army under the leadership of Judah Maccabee. Politically, it ushered in a prolonged period of independent Jewish rule under the Hasmonean dynasty. Socially, it betokened the triumph of traditionalist Jews over the assimilating Hellenizers in their midst. Religiously,...
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Ze'ev B. Begin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to the Likud minister-without-portfolio, no final-status agreement can be reached until Fatah changes its program fundamentally.When Will Obama Learn?
Monday, December 7, 2009 by George S. Hishmeh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Misled, perhaps, by his (Jewish) advisers, the President fails to see that no progress is possible until Israel is made to abandon its relentless program of colonization and ethnic cleansing.
