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Let Us PrayFriday, January 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Rabbi Shimon said: make not your prayers a fixity, but a plea." The inevitable tension in prayer between practice and passion, between communal structure and the lone voice, was certainly known to the biblical prophets and the rabbis of the Talmud. Yet today, the traditional prayers—profoundly communal and reflecting ancient ideas of monarchy, patriarchy, and retribution, sometimes in complicated Hebrew—seem alien to many. If the test of contemporary Judaism is whether it offers a compelling personal experience to "the Jew within," a common liturgy becomes more difficult to maintain than ever before. And so, the project of renewing the Siddur—the Hebrew...
Friday, January 22, 2010 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An interview with Elliott Abrams.The Other Hannah
Friday, January 22, 2010 by Tsafi Saar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A tragic Zionist heroine has begun to emerge in her human complexity.The Long Arm of Tehran?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An attack on visiting Israeli diplomats in Jordan bears signs of Iranian involvement.The Shame of Greece
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Andrew Apostolou | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A society contaminated by a legacy of anti-Semitism and indifference toward anti-Semitism.A Heritage Up for Grabs?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A mini-flap over ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls is but a skirmish in a larger battle over who owns, and can best protect, physical evidence of the Jewish past.New Voice for Zionism
Thursday, January 21, 2010 by David Suissa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a rainy night, a visitor from Ein Prat electrifies an audience of 100 young Los Angeles professionals.
ShasThursday, January 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a first for Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, the Sephardi-dominated Shas party has joined the World Zionist Organization—another step on the road to becoming a fixed presence in the country's political landscape. Founded in the mid-1980's, Shas has long scrambled conventional categories. Although the party is avowedly haredi, and its leaders tend to imitate both the garb and the ideologically-mobilized politics of Ashkenazi haredim, most Shas voters conduct their lives in a non-haredi, if traditional, style. As for attitudes toward the state, Shas politicians, unlike their more squeamish Ashkenazi counterparts, serve in the Israeli cabinet and, sometimes, in the IDF. The success...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by David Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a student vote to twin the world-renowned London School of Economics with the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza.Whose Holocaust?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For much of Europe, January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day; the question is what is being remembered, by whom, and for what purpose.
