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Benefits of Egypt’s RevolutionTuesday, February 15, 2011 by Jackson Diehl | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The upsides include the possibility that a democratic Egypt will have an incentive to check, rather than to promote, anti-Semitic propaganda.A Lost World?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Jeffrey Veidlinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Antony Polonsky's magisterial The Jews in Poland and Russia demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of Jewish life in Eastern Europe while correcting romanticized misrepresentations.
Spirituality LiteTuesday, February 15, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A simple truth lurks behind the rise of "post-denominationalism" in Jewish religious life. It is that increasing numbers of Jews are becoming less interested in defining what Judaism means than in sampling aspects of the Jewish tradition that seem to promise spiritual vitality.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Miriam H. Nadel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A concert work for voice and piano, in Yiddish, is based on a conceptual connection to Schubert's Winterreise—and a powerful elegiac connection to a vanished but still vibrant civilization.Peace from the Bottom-Up
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As fresh winds sweep the Arab Middle East, the former Soviet political prisoner and author of The Case for Democracy is feeling a certain vindication. (Interview by David Horovitz.)Be My (Jewish) Valentine
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Everett Gendler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does Cupid, the Roman god of love, appear above the main entrance of the synagogue at Capernaum in Israel, as well as on Jewish paintings and sarcophagi in Rome? Graying the Line
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do literary treatments of the Holocaust necessarily trivialize the horror? According to Ruth Franklin, everything depends on the artist at work, and the artistry. A Christian Ketubah
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Samuel G. Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The traditional wedding contract joins Passover seders and kosher food among Jewish practices incorporated by Gentiles acting out of a variety of impulses.If You Will It–African-Style
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Danna Harman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As South Sudan moves toward independence, hundreds of refugees who sought asylum in Israel are returning to build the new state; one of them is hoping to duplicate the Israeli kibbutz there.
The New York Times Revises the Peace ProcessMonday, February 14, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"The Peace Plan that Almost Was and Still Could Be": blazoned over the entire cover of the February 13 New York Times Magazine, the sensation-seeking headline comes accompanied by a photograph from the back of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, each with his arm around the other.
