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Germany Rethinking IranFriday, January 29, 2010 by David Gordon Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Given its special ties with Jerusalem, can Berlin any longer conduct business as usual with Tehran?Marching to Post-Orthodoxy
Friday, January 29, 2010 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With the ordination of a "rabbah," the growing split within Orthodoxy may have reached its Rubicon.Israel Made Me Do It
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Phyllis Chesler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Deconstructing the sponsorship, the methods, and the conclusions of a study in Britain's premier medical journal on why Palestinian men beat their wives.How Hard?
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In going from extreme optimism to extreme pessimism on the Middle East, Obama has been wrong at least twice over.Equals in Responsibility
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Michael Graetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a modern-Orthodox rabbi in New York confers on a woman the title of "rabba," a Conservative rabbi in Israel finds support for sexual egalitarianism in the Bible.The Gift of Life
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Sally Satel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a praiseworthy initiative, Israel now encourages organ donation by compensating families of deceased donors.Oscar and the Jews
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Naomi Pfefferman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Opinion is divided on depictions of Jewish characters and themes in three potential Academy Award nominees.
Holocaust DaysThursday, January 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Yesterday, Shimon Peres delivered an address, in Hebrew, before the Bundestag as Germany and other nations marked International Holocaust Day, commemorating the date in 1945 when Soviet forces arrived at Auschwitz. Israeli and American Jews conduct their own Holocaust remembrances in the spring, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, uneasy with the Zionist emphasis on force and resistance, hold their memorials on the tenth of Tevet, one of the traditional fast days for the destruction of the Temple. In short, the Holocaust remains as open to interpretation, reinterpretation—and misunderstanding—as is the hole it blew through all the history...
AliyahWednesday, January 27, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel has a general immigration problem; it also has an aliyah problem, to use the tradition-honored term for the specifically Jewish act of "going up" to the Land. The two problems are not the same, though in many ways, as a conference this week underlined, they're related. High-level economic opportunity of the kind that might attract large numbers of Western Jews doesn't exactly beckon. Meanwhile, the country's freedoms and porous borders make it an unregulated haven for hundreds of thousands of foreign non-Jewish laborers, legal and illegal, and declared asylum seekers from the world's trouble spots. For early Zionist thinkers like...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Leon de Winter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The popular Dutch politician Geert Wilders, on trial for alleged Islamophobia, proposes to call a string of academics and radical Islamists to back up his comparison of the Quran with Mein Kampf. What if he proves his case?
