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When the Gatekeepers Won’t Shut UpTuesday, February 5, 2013 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Oscar-nominated Gatekeepers interviews all the living heads of Israeli intelligence. The last time that happened, the result was the Israeli pullout that left Gaza to Hamas.
Life Goes OnMonday, February 4, 2013 by Jonathan Gondelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Life Goes On, by German-Jewish novelist Hans Keilson, had been forgotten since the Nazis banned it in 1934. Now, a year after Keilson's death, it has been translated into English.
Monday, February 4, 2013 by Thane Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As New York City’s mayor from 1978 to 1989, Ed Koch, who died last week, is credited with having saved the city from bankruptcy—in a "brashly Jewish way."Criticizing the Biblical Critics
Monday, February 4, 2013 by James Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Modern biblical criticism, for all its sophistication, treats "only the literal meaning of the Bible’s words on the page, divorced from Judaism’s age-old traditions of interpretation." (Interview by Alan Brill)America’s New Religious Divide
Monday, February 4, 2013 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The religious dividing line in today’s America no longer pits Protestants against Catholics or even Christians against Jews, but separates religious liberals from religious conservatives.The Science of Muddling Through
Monday, February 4, 2013 by Gil Student | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Drawing on Burke, Chaim Navon argues that women will gradually assume larger roles in Orthodox Judaism—and that those who demand sudden change risk doing more harm than good. Asking Hagel the Real Questions
Monday, February 4, 2013 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Chuck Hagel seems to believe that without the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Middle East would be a "placid lake"—a view "utterly discredited by events."
It’s All in the AngleFriday, February 1, 2013 by Jack Riemer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In his new collection of essays, ultra-Orthodox rabbi Avi Shafran disputes the scientific worldview on its own terms. But he refuses to acknowledge scientific challenges to Judaism.
