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Missing in Academic ActionTuesday, October 12, 2010 by Or Kashti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the study of Hebrew literature is in drastic decline, and so is the study of the humanities in general.
The J Street ScandalMonday, October 11, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent scandal involving the lobbying group J Street, a liberal organization founded in 2008 that bills itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace," may seem to some like a tempest in a teapot. In fact it is very significant, especially to anyone concerned about Israel, its future, and its relationship to the United States.
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The American Jewish community hardly suffers from a dearth of younger leaders; but where do they mean to lead it? A new report. (PDF)A Tale of Two Galloways
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reconstructing the true authorship and subsequent history of the famous assertion, made in 1952, that the Arab states have exploited the Palestinian refugees as a tool against Israel.Patriarchy Rampant
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jill Hamilton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Whatever complaints Israeli Jews have about the chief rabbinate's grip on marriage and family law, Christians all over the Middle East have it worse.Signs of Life
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Joanna Paraszczuk | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In hip, avant-garde, multicultural Tel Aviv, the latest cool thing is . . . Yiddish.Gone West
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Asher Klein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new exhibit documents the founding and the flourishing of Chicago's Jewish community.The Devil Is in the Details
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.Losing Robinson Crusoe
Friday, October 8, 2010 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A translation of a 20th-century Torah commentary has excised its author's moving paragraph on the "agony of solitude" endured by Daniel Defoe's hero. Why?
Englishing the Hebrew BibleFriday, October 8, 2010 by David Curzon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
All translators of the Hebrew Bible into English work in the shadow of the genius of the King James Version (KJV), done in the 17th century and still in wide use today despite its thee's and thou's. Jewish translations, following the sequence and other features of the Hebrew Bible, and guided by rabbinic understandings, have been brought out by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and others.
