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The Demagoguery Days of SummerMonday, August 8, 2011 by Amotz Asa-El | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
America's anti-market policy has already bred disaster. Is this what Israel's "tent protesters" have in mind for the Jewish state?
Mourning, Memory, and ArtMonday, August 8, 2011 by Richard McBee | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
David Roberts (1796–1864) was a Scottish painter who in the late 1830's traveled extensively in the Levant and Egypt documenting "Orientalist" sites in drawings and watercolors. Among Roberts's paintings was a massive 1849 work, The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, the only viable way forward—from demonstrating to organized political activity—remains perilously elusive.The Self-Centered Life
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why observe the Torah's commandments? Because, says an Orthodox rabbi channeling Oprah, they make you feel good about yourself.“Friendship Jew”
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the perils of cross-cultural exchange as experienced by a Jewish Peace Corps volunteer in Guiyang, China.The Jewish Berber Queen
Monday, August 8, 2011 by Renée Levine Melammed | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dahia al-Kahena, a powerful monarch and formidable warrior, may have tragically paved the way for the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 C.E.Real Zionism
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel is moving toward an equilibrium between socialism and capitalism—and thus closer to the social welfare society envisioned by Herzl.Double Standards
Friday, August 5, 2011 by Gerald M. Steinberg and Naftali A. Balanson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does the incompetence of Human Rights Watch in handling the repression and violence of the Syrian regime prove the organization's irrelevance once and for all? Monsters into Songbirds
Friday, August 5, 2011 by James Warner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israeli author Etgar Keret's cryptic popular fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a morally ambiguous world.
John Lennon and the JewsFriday, August 5, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"It's not cool to be Jewish, or Negro, or Italian. It's just cool to be alive, to be around." So said Aretha Franklin. I know, because my father used to have the soul diva's wisdom hanging on the wall of his study at home. He also used to walk around in a t-shirt with "Miscegenate" emblazoned across the chest.
