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Imaginary Vampires, Imagined JewsMonday, July 11, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
1897 was a watershed year in Jewish history. And now, Jewish historians may consider adding a surprising entry to the list of that year's events that proved so repercussive in Jewish history: the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If diplomacy stopped this year's flotilla to Gaza, could it have stopped last year's?Off the Path
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Dropouts from Orthodoxy are growing in number, but many of them never leave completely; in this there may be a peculiar sign of hope.I’m Not Marching
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Ruth Gavison | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood represents, at the moment, more of a danger to the chance of implementing a two-state solution than a way of promoting it.Why So Many Jews in Comedy?
Monday, July 11, 2011 by Gladstone | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reflections on a relationship that has been noted frequently by scholars, by serious talk-show hosts, and by pudgy guys in Jewish fraternities.Exile to Main Street
Friday, July 8, 2011 by Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Large-scale emigration, as Israel is now seeing, is particularly problematic given the state's relatively small population, unique ethnic composition, and regional political context.The Convert’s Contribution
Friday, July 8, 2011 by Meylekh Viswanath | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Converts bring to Judaism a valuable outsiders' perspective—and a reminder of the Jews' own history as outsiders. From Harvard to Entebbe
Friday, July 8, 2011 by Charles E. Shepard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Thirty-five years after Yonatan Netanyahu (a brother of the prime minister) was killed while leading the heroic hostage-rescue mission, his classmates remember their singular peer.Ties that Bind
Friday, July 8, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Wimpel, a Torah sash unique to German Jewry, was sewn from the cloth used to swaddle a baby boy after circumcision.
A Two-Day Weekend in Israel?Friday, July 8, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With July 4th behind them, Americans can look forward to closing out the summer season with Labor Day on September 5th. All told, they will enjoy ten national holidays. And, of course, they have the leisure of weekends.
