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The Lord is My . . . Lumberjack?Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The topic of biblical translation deserves a good book for a general readership. But one recent effort is problematic at best—and preposterous at worst.
Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Hating JewTuesday, October 25, 2011 by Dan Kagan-Kans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The French author Irène Némirovsky lived through one world war and died at Hitler's hands in the second. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Kiev at the turn of the last century, she came of age just in time to flee revolutionary Russia for Paris.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By refusing to directly confront Iran's provocations, the United States has become the Islamic Republic's key ally in its march toward a nuclear bomb.The King versus Bloom
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Hillel Halkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By temperament a strong misreader, the Hebrew Bible is a mine of riches for Harold Bloom. The King James version of it, considered solely as the fine and faithful translation that it is, is less so.Mere Anarchy
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Fred Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Vivian Gornick's study of the famed anarchist and sexual rebel Emma Goldman so effectively entwines the lives of author and subject that one is not always sure if Gornick is referring to Goldman or to herself.The First Obligation of Statehood
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A cohesive Israeli society depends on the ability of the Jewish state to protect its minorities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, physically and culturally.Putting the Pieces Together
Monday, October 24, 2011 by Ofer Aderet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An ambitious new project aims to digitize the entire Cairo Genizah, thus virtually reassembling half a million document fragments scattered around the world.Nature, Nurture, and the Nobel Prize
Monday, October 24, 2011 by Lazar Berman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The case study of Jewish IQ can reveal not only the source and nature of intelligence, but whether we as a society are mature enough to debate these questions honestly.A Jewish Writer in America
Monday, October 24, 2011 by Saul Bellow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a 1988 talk, Saul Bellow reflects on "what the twentieth century has made of me and what I have made of the twentieth century." Part II of a two-part series; part I is here.
Are Young Rabbis Turning on Israel?Monday, October 24, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For all the theological, ritualistic, and institutional differences separating the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements, what distinguishes the groups in the minds of many ordinary American Jews comes down to branding.
