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Native SonThursday, January 5, 2012 by Ann Marlowe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
After Gen. David Petraeus, the greatest single influence on American counterinsurgency practice in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Tunisian-born Jew who has been dead more than 40 years.Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Edward Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest.
The State of ChristianityThursday, January 5, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On a sun-drenched day during the week before Christmas, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was crowded with pilgrims from Nigeria. They were taking turns kneeling and praying at a marker on the spot where, sacred history has it, Jesus was crucified, entombed, and resurrected.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Aner Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A microstate with no army and a defense pact with its closest neighbor, Israel; a welfare state to make Scandinavians jealous; education, with small classes and long days, state-funded through college.Earthly Gardens
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In defiance of the Holocaust, novelist Giorgio Bassani claims the Jamesian right to draw the circumference of his work where he wants it, where it is most artistically fitting.Japan’s Inner Israel
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by Glenn Newman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Both Japan and Israel rose from deprivation to prosperity in, historically speaking, the blink of an eye. But now Israel is punching far above its economic weight, while Japan can't seem to get off the mat. What happened?A Grief Observed
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by Eitan Fishbane | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Three and a half months it took me, but today when I woke I knew all of a sudden; all at once I was filled with the desire, with the need, to visit your grave": a young widower's kaddish.Vay’hi: Zealotry and Tolerance
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The time of patriarchs was reaching its end. Jacob was dying, and alongside his dictation of burial arrangements, he also gave final words to his twelve sons, words in which he would tell them "what will befall you in the end of days." We usually read them as his final "blessings." But in the case of two sons, Simeon and Levi, they are assuredly curses.
Goodnight, ViennaWednesday, January 4, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Jews of Vienna did not merely understand the world: they took Marx's point and changed it, too. From Freud's psychoanalysis to Wittgenstein's philosophy, from Mahler's music to Herzl's Zionism, they made a unique contribution to modernity.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
We hear a lot about the ultra-Orthodox community's fractious encounters with outsiders. But is this growing extremism a reaction to dramatic changes within ultra-Orthodoxy itself?
