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The Pale GodFriday, February 3, 2012 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Imagine God not as a benign force infusing the universe with love and sustaining it with mercy, and not as a stern judge smiting sinners from on high with his cosmic zap-gun, but as a grandfatherly figure, kind but, truth be told, somewhat out of it, sitting in a corner, tolerant of the various paths his children have chosen.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Tali Heruti-Sover | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Straddling the Green Line, the village of Bartaa has become a booming market town. Or, rather, the Palestinian half has.History without Witnesses
Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Deborah E. Lipstadt | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the Holocaust disappears from living memory, what matters is not who is speaking but who is listening.Cancelling Conversion
Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While many Orthodox rabbis have become too willing to annul conversions, even the non-Orthodox world recognizes that there are some circumstances in which a conversion must be overturned.
Hear, O Friends of IsraelThursday, February 2, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1987, exactly a quarter-century ago, the appearance of a work of Jewish history caused a stir. For one thing, the author was not Jewish; for another, the book was unashamedly supportive of the State of Israel, which even then was enough to provoke hostility, especially on the Left.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Yonatan Silverman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The holiness of Jerusalem in the Muslim tradition owes less to the Koran than it does to the opportunistic building program of Jerusalem's eight-century Umayyad rulers.Who’s Afraid of a Nuclear Iran?
Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Douglas Murray | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is—and since 1973, Israel has had reason to think that on the brink of its annihilation, Europe wouldn't act to save it. (Video)Jews, Booze, and Americanization
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Sam Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Prohibition presented a dilemma for Jews: Should they insist on an exemption for sacramental wine, or break with the past for the sake of assimilation?Amid the Alien Corn
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By 1965, the now-renowned Orthodox rabbi and writer Aryeh Kaplan had relinquished physics graduate school and took a pulpit position in Mason City, Iowa, at a congregation that only had a late Friday night service. (Part II; part I is here.) Sabra-Rattling
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Haim Shine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest survey on Israeli religion shows that Labor Zionism's attempt to replace Judaism with Israeliness has failed.
