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Leaving Bitterness BehindMonday, January 31, 2011 by Danna Harman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A legendary warrior and the man poised to become foreign minister of South Sudan talk about the long path to independence and their prospective nation's fateful relationship with Israel.
Arab StirringsFriday, January 28, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On January 14, the strongman of Tunisia, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fled in panic to Saudi Arabia after the astonishingly spontaneous, Facebook-driven crumbling of his corrupt regime.
Friday, January 28, 2011 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do the documents leaked to al-Jazeera prove, as some claim, that the Palestinians were willing to go far to achieve peace? Far from it.What is Peoplehood?
Friday, January 28, 2011 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A faddish word in the lingo of today's institutional Judaism, "peoplehood" deserves greater—and more critical—attention. Gadi Taub and the Meaning of Zionism
Friday, January 28, 2011 by Michael Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On nationalism and democracy, Israel and Europe, and the role of the writer; an interview with the left-wing Zionist author and scourge of West Bank settlements.Judeomania!
Friday, January 28, 2011 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Growing ties between China and Israel can be explained in terms of mutual interests—but whence the growing Chinese interest in all things Jewish?Jazz Standards
Friday, January 28, 2011 by Ben Waltzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Clarinetist Anat Cohen, a master of expressive improvisation, leads a talented wave of Israeli musicians flooding the New York jazz scene. (With audio clips.)
Talmud: The Back StoryThursday, January 27, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
There is no getting away from the Babylonian Talmud. Love it, hate it, or both, this monumental work has been central to Jewish life for a millennium and more, managing time after time to find new readers and to summon new forms of reading.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 by John L. Allen, and Jr. | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a forthcoming book, the legal scholar Joseph Weiler argues that, in the events surrounding the death of Jesus, Jews were acting out their biblically mandated part in a divine drama of obedience.Lies, Damned Lies, and Communal Statistics
Thursday, January 27, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How an anti-Semitic comment fueled the first great census of New York Jews and inspired a venerable tradition.
