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The MossadTuesday, July 6, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Last week, Israel successfully deployed its fourth orbiting spy satellite, hailed by the country's intelligence community as delivering better than expected surveillance of "areas of interest." At the same time, Israel's human-intelligence apparatus, essential as ever to the Jewish state's survival, has come under severe criticism for two of its recent missions: the presumed liquidation of the senior Hamas operative Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai and the ill-prepared interdiction of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla. Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities continue to sweep up reputed Israeli agents for spying on Hizballah.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Andrew Rosenkranz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under Hugo Chavez, anti-Semitism is no longer merely encouraged; now it has become official.The Curious Case of Mark Zborowski
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Steven J. Zipperstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The author of Life Is with People, a classic of shtetl nostalgia, was a Stalinist spy; how do these two facts compute?Not the Catskills
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Stacey Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The global summer community in Chautauqua, New York has become a flourishing retreat for Jewish learning and culture.A Man for a Few Seasons
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Recovering Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935), a distinguished French-Jewish scholar, president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, staunch assimilationist, shortsighted opponent of Zionism.The Binational Fantasy
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Shlomo Avineri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One has to be blind, ignorant, thoroughly insensitive, or all three to think that Jews and Palestinians could maintain a democratic life after being thrown into a single political cauldron.The Rothschilds of the East?
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Richard I. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a recently closed Paris exhibition: the munificent artistic legacy of a family whose career began in Istanbul in the late 18th century and ended at Auschwitz.Customs and Ceremonies
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a massive 18th-century book that illustrated the diverse religious lives, and the underlying common humanity, of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, native Americans, and Jews.Sisera Was Here
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is a round, 3,200-year-old bronze tablet part of a linchpin from the Canaanite general's war chariot?
Retrieving American Jewish Fiction: Myron BrinigFriday, July 2, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"For Jews," the historian Jerry Z. Muller said recently, "Jewish economic success has long been a source of both pride and embarrassment." Very few Jewish writers have risen to even this level of ambivalence. The ground note of Jewish fiction has been hostility to business—the prooftext is The Rise of David Levinsky—and the story of Jewish success in establishing banks, department stores, and clothing lines has fallen to strangers (including anti-Semites) to tell.
