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The Binational FantasyFriday, 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.
TypographyThursday, July 1, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the Book of Genesis, the Hebrew language is the very stuff of creation. The Talmud tells us (Menahot 29b) that Rabbi Akiva would derive new laws from the "crowns" of Hebrew letters. In the Kabbalah, the shape of the letters is said to reflect the shape of God's own inner being. What type of type can do justice to any of this?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.Fanatics Have No Fun
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Asef Bayat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)Making Music to His Name
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed?
An Umbrella for British JewryWednesday, June 30, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, now celebrating its 250th anniversary, is almost certainly the oldest continuously functioning representative body of Jewry in the world. Its first meeting, held at London's Bevis Marks Synagogue in 1760, was recorded in Portuguese, the language of its Sephardi founders. The first complete history of the Board, by Raphael Langham, has just been published—at a moment when neither the Board nor the community it represents is in robust health.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The dilemma of liberal Judaism, a new anthology suggests, is that its theologians can barely mouth the word "God" without a blizzard of qualifications.Archaeological Politics
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Only in Israel are politically motivated critics permitted to obstruct even the most impeccably conducted digs.
