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Chaos TheoryTuesday, February 21, 2012 by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite Israeli fears, the Arab Spring will not translate into hostile Islamic theocracies across the Middle East. Instead, the region's popular revolts will divide Israel's enemies.
Rose-Colored GlassesMonday, February 20, 2012 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jacqueline Rose, a noted professor of English in the United Kingdom and the author of many works of literary criticism, has stepped beyond the academic precincts where she first made her name to produce, over the past decade or so, a substantial opus dealing with Zionism and Israel.
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The correspondence of Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth displays his sparkling wit and contrarian sensibilities, but testifies above all to his terminal decline into alcoholism.Newton the Theologian
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Aron Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Known for revolutionizing empirical science, Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian. His writings on Scripture and mysticism (as well as his prediction of the apocalypse) have now been digitized in Israel.Tramp Stamp
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Tom Whitehead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Suspecting his Communist sympathies, the CIA and MI5 began investigating Charlie Chaplin. Would his missing birth certificate verify the speculation that he was really a Russian Jew?Israel’s African Influx
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Dan Kosky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Netanyahu genuinely wants to control illegal immigration to Israel from Africa, he should be constructing a proper legal process to separate economic migrants from asylum seekers.The False Crusade
Monday, February 20, 2012 by Peter Frankopan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The medieval narrative of the First Crusade as a Papal expedition to conquer Jerusalem is still rarely questioned; yet the roots of the Crusade lie not in Rome but rather in Byzantium.Education vs. Advocacy
Friday, February 17, 2012 by David Bernstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The need to balance critical thinking and national pride is not limited to Israel education. But while education and advocacy are not one and the same, neither are they mutually exclusive.
Redefining Religious ActivityFriday, February 17, 2012 by Meir Soloveichik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In August of 1790, Moses Seixas, a leading member of the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, composed a letter to then President George Washington, who was visiting Newport. In his letter, Seixas gave voice to his people's love of America and its liberties.
Friday, February 17, 2012 by Ezra Glinter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
There was the cholent, cooked in enormous stockpots in the oven. Then kishka, cold cuts on challah, and coleslaw, topped off by three or four Italian ices in paper tubes. Ah, Shabbes lunch at yeshiva . . .
