Jewish Ideas Daily has been succeeded and re-launched as Mosaic. Read more...

Search Results

Search for    in      

You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.

The Age of Islamism
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Far from being a democratic revolution, the fall of autocracies across the Arab world represents Islamism’s final victory over Arab nationalism—and the beginning of a project to restore the caliphate.
Betraying Jabotinsky
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Jeff Barak | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

By forming an electoral pact with Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud may guarantee victory in the upcoming election; but will that come at the expense of the values on which the party was founded?
Saving Sergeant Netanyahu
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Following his late brother Yoni to become a commando, Benjamin Netanyahu almost met Yoni's fate in his first battle: “I was nearly killed in a firefight inside the Suez Canal. I mean that literally.”
The EU’s Israel Problem
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Daniel Hannan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“The reason most Euro-enthusiasts resent Israel is that it is the supreme embodiment of the national principle—that is, of the desire of every people to form their own state.”
Mr. Berlin Himself
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by John Shaw | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If Irving Berlin is usually reckoned among the Great American Songbook composers, two new studies of his life and work show that he was perhaps the greatest of them all.
Art and Idolatry in Austria Art and Idolatry in Austria
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Art transforms life through beauty but inspires a possessiveness unlike any other.  Collectors tend toward obsession, which overwhelms morality; museums, like the medieval church, wash away sin with exhibitions for the public good.