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No Justice, No PeaceThursday, September 16, 2010 by John Mark Reynolds | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until anti-Semitism is purged, and until every minority group in the Middle East enjoys the rights of religious and cultural minorities in Israel, there will be no peace.
The Best Proletarian Novel Ever WrittenThursday, September 16, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Comparisons between the Great Depression and current economic conditions "remain relevant," says the financial columnist Robert Samuelson—"and unsettling." Economic growth for this year's second quarter was a paltry 1.6 percent; unemployment hovers above 9.5 percent; sales of existing homes have fallen to their lowest rate in more than a decade; consumers show little sign of having recovered their confidence. At such a moment, American literature must surely be ripe for a revival of the Marxist-inspired "proletarian novel."
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Montreal to Haifa, a documentary film records the search for the world's best falafel. (With video.)The Old Home
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A panoramic survey of East European Jewry in the decades of the great emigration to America paints a picture very different from the conventional image of a slower, simpler "old world."
Jonah and Yom KippurWednesday, September 15, 2010 by Meir Soloveichik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Read in its entirety in the synagogue in the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Jonah is the only multi-chapter book of the Bible to be so honored. Indeed, one commentator, observing that the brief Torah reading that precedes Jonah has little to do with the day, but merely continues where the morning reading left off, has suggested that this may be precisely in order to emphasize that, in a departure from the usual priorities, the haftarah, or prophetic portion, is in fact the critical text for the occasion. But what makes it so significant, and what lesson does it really teach about Yom Kippur?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to the Golan—a safe and spectacular region with an uncertain future—and conversations with some of its inhabitants. (With photos.)Rise and Fall
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Jacob Neusner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The academic study of Judaism flourishes at secular American universities, but at the price of a decline in centers of Jewish-sponsored scholarship and its accompanying values.Double-Talk
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Ibn Warraq | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf has a history of saying one thing to Western audiences and another to Muslim ones. (Part 1 of 2; part 2 is here.)
The Golem: Universal and ParticularTuesday, September 14, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The most famous and enduring of all Jewish legends is that of the golem, the artificial man. Indeed, with the possible exception of the demon Lilith, briefly pressed into service as a feminist icon, the golem remains the only post-biblical Jewish myth to be widely adopted by non-Jewish culture. Among its recent incarnations are a computer game that bears its name and the army of humanoids who populate James Cameron's film Avatar.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 by Herman Kieval | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The best-known ritual of the High Holy Day services has a paradoxical and controversial history. (1968; PDF)
