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Peter Beinart, I Quit.Monday, April 2, 2012 by Yoel Finkelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Peter Beinart's new blog on the Daily Beast titled Open Zion (formerly Zion Square) is dedicated to an "open and unafraid conversation about Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish future." But after several weeks of Open Zion, one writer has concluded that its conversation is not, in fact, open—and is not one in which he can continue to take part. Here, he resigns his position.
Monday, April 2, 2012 by Jeremy Sharon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A translation of the Talmud into Arabic seems motivated less by historical interest than by a desire to understand what is considered to be "the main source of Jewish iniquity."Notes on Camp
Monday, April 2, 2012 by Jason Miller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Across denominations, statistics show that Jewish summer camps have a significant effect on children's lifelong Jewish involvement. But can Jewish camps keep up with secular alternatives?Philanthropy Nation?
Monday, April 2, 2012 by Suzanne Last Stone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For a philanthropic culture to develop in Israel, the traditional American-Israeli partnership model requires serious retooling.The End of the Sharon Dynasty
Friday, March 30, 2012 by Noam Sheizaf | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shaul Mofaz's victory in the primaries to become leader of Kadima in place of Tzipi Livni will take the party out of the shadow of Ariel Sharon—and into coalition with Likud. What Passover Sounded Like 370 Years Ago
Friday, March 30, 2012 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Musical notation for two end-of-seder songs in a 17th-century Haggadah is brought to life in a Toronto Jewish high school. (Video)
Is Football Treyf?Friday, March 30, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Israeli Football League—American football, not soccer—is a curiosity. For starters, it's popular: While the sport has mostly flopped overseas, the IFL has an invested fan base and committed, reasonably talented players.
Friday, March 30, 2012 by Zvi Mazel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Egypt's vast Sinai peninsula is turning into a lawless territory in which the Bedouin population is collaborating with terrorist groups to plan and carry out attacks against Israel's southern border. Cave Canem
Friday, March 30, 2012 by Nicolas Brulliard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Amid Israel's ambitious program to bring back "the animals of the Bible to the land of the Bible," why is the Canaan dog—Israel's indigenous breed—receiving so little support?
Art against HistoryThursday, March 29, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Antiquity washes away the immediacy of historical pain and injustice. Our ability to feel suffering is indexed directly to its epoch: the more remote, the more detached we are. Museums play on this—pander to this—and to our forgetfulness. History is softened, elided, or erased.
