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Alma, Tell UsWednesday, May 2, 2012 by Ilan Stavans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Did Isaac Bashevis Singer's long-suffering wife write a memoir?Aharei Mot-K’doshim: Abide with Me
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week we are told that the Tent of Meeting "abides" in the midst of the Israelites—something that a tent ought not to be doing. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:11:28There are More Things in Heaven and Earth
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by David Winters | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
And there are other Walter Benjamins besides the post-Kantian philosopher dreamt of by Eli Friedlander.LDS POTUS?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Nine rabbis from different walks of life reflect on what a Mormon president might mean to Jews.Refugees and Resolutions
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by Lyn Julius | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is afraid to champion restitution for Jews expelled from Arab countries because of the assumed link to the Palestinian refugee issue.The Frum Jesus
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Greg Carey | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jesus seems to have habitually transgressed the Torah, which the New Testament claims he abolished outright. So why do historians conclude that Jesus lived as a Torah-observant Jew?The Patriarch
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Michal Shmulovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While Benzion Netanyahu will go down in history as a pathbreaking scholar and political activist, Israel's prime minister will remember the father who braved a snowstorm rather than let his son go to bed hungry.Trailing the Magic Bullet
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Josh Feinberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Permission to treat Christians, entrance quotas, scientific heroes, magic cures, and nursing campaigns: a new exhibit explores the glorious, scandalous history of Jews and modern medicine. (Slideshow)Lions and Angels
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Adin Steinsaltz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How did the legendary rabbinic scholar, who was raised in a secular household, become religious? "It was almost spontaneous." (Video)In Defense of Jewish Nationalism
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Robert Wolfe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Jewish national movement is now composed of religious nationalists, secular nationalists, and Jewish loyalists. What it lacks is a conception of Jewish nationalism that can appeal to non-Jews.