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My ViennaWednesday, December 16, 2009 by Phyllis Chesler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A violent attack on a Chabad rabbi last weekend spurs reflections on a city of Jewish dreams and nightmares.Abbas’s No to Netanyahu’s Yes
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Jonathan Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The freeze on building in Jewish settlements has earned little or no credit in Europe or among Israel's Arab interlocutors and foes.Amplifying anti-Semitism
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Laura Kam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the eve of a global conference in Jerusalem, a summary look at the role of media in the new wave of physical and verbal attacks on Jews.The Last Jews of Beirut
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Josie Ensor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The collapse of efforts to restore a historic synagogue signals the impending demise of a once-flourishing Jewish community.Under the Influence
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Martin Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
“The question for historians of Judaism is not whether Jews borrowed from Hellenism, but what they did with what they borrowed.” Richly illustrated.
Who Can Retell?Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the holidays of the Jewish year, Hanukkah may surpass even Passover in the sheer number and variety of the songs devoted to recalling, retelling, and rejoicing in the events of the past and their evergreen message. For American Jews of a certain age nostalgic for their childhood, Diane Ashton deftly surveys the English-language ditties of the 1950’s, from “Who Can Retell” to “I Had a Little Dreydl” and beyond. Today’s casual consumers have their pick of dozens of new CD’s in English, Yinglish, and Hebrew, folk, rock, and heavy metal, many of them rivaling the Christmas market for kitsch. But...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Yair Sheleg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unless countered by religious moderates, increasing extremism in Israel’s national-religious camp will feed a corresponding extremism among secular Israelis.The Scrooge of Hanukkah
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Robert M. Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the dishonesty of Tony Judt.Are Israelis Down on Obama?
Monday, December 14, 2009 by Amjad Atallah and Daniel Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not really; but they see little benefit in changing the status quo.
Emancipation & Its DiscontentsMonday, December 14, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
“One day [Jews are] being completely segregated, [and the] next thing you know, Napoleon comes through town, tears down the ghetto gates, and we can do whatever we like, sort of.” Thus the author Michael Goldfarb, describing the thesis of his recently published book, Emancipation. Especially in the cases of France and Germany, Goldfarb writes, there is no denying the profoundly liberating energies that were unleashed when the Jews, like a spring suddenly uncoiled, were enabled to join the larger societies in which they lived. Nor can there be any proper understanding of the larger course of modernity apart from this...
