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Can Science Explain Religion?Friday, January 8, 2010 by H. Allen Orr | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book tries to explain the history of Western religion by way of game theory and evolutionary psychology. The author makes important moral points; but the points are completely independent of the science, and even work against it.For a Failing Kibbutz, Strange New Life
Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Ben Harris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A collective settlement in financial receivership finds a Conservative rabbi, and its dreams revive.Abayudaya
Thursday, January 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rare photographic look at a small Jewish community in Uganda, also profiled in Commentary by Irwin M. Berg.The End of Days?
Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
According to a new book, messianism has been central to the Chabad movement since its origins; the most recent Rebbe just reworked it in a modern key.What Would Sharon Do?
Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Seth Lipsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the personal and professional makeup of the former Israeli premier who has now entered his fifth year of coma.
It Isn’t Even PastThursday, January 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent theft and recovery of the sign Arbeit Macht Frei from the gate of Auschwitz, and the emotional responses elicited by the incident, drive home just how deeply embedded the Holocaust and its imagery remain in contemporary consciousness. No doubt, this world-historical event will long continue to occupy a central place in human memory—along with, unfortunately, whatever permutations, distortions, and outright falsifications time will add to those that have already accumulated in the overheated political rhetoric of our own age. That is why, here and now, as we enter perhaps the final decade of the event's living memory, the issue...
Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Paul Wolfowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Remembering a Muslim statesman and intellectual who combined faithfulness with deep humanity.Iran’s Righteous Martyrs
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Emanuele Ottolenghi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The crackdown on dissent has created a new class of martyrs in the best—and most subversive—Shiite tradition.What (and Who) is the London Review of Books?
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a darkly influential magazine and its editor-proprietor.
And That’s an Order?Wednesday, January 6, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
International pressure is mounting on the Netanyahu government to freeze—and eventually remove—Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. Simultaneously, a heated domestic debate is taking place within the national-religious (Dati Leumi) community over whether religious soldiers can, if push comes to shove, resist a government order to remove settlers from their homes. The argument resonates most strongly in the "Hesder" yeshivot, higher-level schools whose students alternate periods of Talmud study with active military duty. Yesterday, the heads of Har Etzion, a flagship Hesder yeshiva, issued a strong statement against disobedience. The issue is made more acute by the fact that so many religious...
