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Another Ceiling BrokenFriday, January 11, 2013 by Yair Rosenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Treasury Secretary nominee Jack—Jacob—Lew is currently White House Chief of Staff and already the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew ever to serve in the federal government.Hold Your Peace
Friday, January 11, 2013 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contrary to press reports, the majority of Israelis supporting right-wing parties favor a negotiated peace. It’s just that they know the Palestinian Authority does not.Europe’s First Jewish President?
Friday, January 11, 2013 by Dinah Spritzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Czech Republic is Israel's staunchest ally in Europe—and, if Jan Fischer wins in the coming elections, will be the first European country to have a Jewish president.Ascending to Heaven
Friday, January 11, 2013 by James Tabor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though Paul of Tarsus decisively broke with Judaism, his vision of heaven in the Book of Corinthians was not so different from contemporaneous Jewish ideas.Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness
Friday, January 11, 2013 by Emily Esfahani Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, wrote that "if there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering."
When Prayers for Rain are AnsweredFriday, January 11, 2013 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel is, in most minds, an arid land bereft of water, not cursed with its superabundance. But a look at geography and history suggests otherwise.
Buczacz by Way of Newark: On Literary Lives at the EndThursday, January 10, 2013 by Jeffrey Saks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Philip Roth has bowed out gracefully from the literary world. But for the great Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon, retirement was never an option.
