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A Real Palestinian Uprising?Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the possibility that protests like those rocking the greater Arab world will break out in the West Bank, Gaza, or both.Lost in Transit
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Sam Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The debut novel of David Bezmozgis, once hailed as a successor to Roth and Malamud, represents a dispiriting turn for the genre of immigrant fiction.Her Jewish Problem
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The gender theorist Judith Butler turns an essay ostensibly about the legal dispute over Kafka's unpublished papers into a libel of the Jewish state.Three Religions, One God?
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Jacob Neusner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam show the range and potential of a common conviction. But it is in their differences that each shines a light on the character of the others.Caution: Under Construction
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Aluf Benn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The borders of the modern Middle East, shaped by Western powers, never corresponded to the ethnic and tribal facts on the ground. Will the map now be redrawn?
Seeking SolomonTuesday, March 29, 2011 by Eve Levavi Feinstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For traditionalists, the biography of King Solomon is enshrined in the Bible, in the narrative accounts in the books of Kings and Chronicles. The son of King David, who spent his career battling Israel's enemies, Solomon is depicted as ushering in an era of peace and prosperity. Yet the Bible also relates that Solomon took numerous foreign wives and concubines—one thousand in total—who led him to worship foreign gods and build shrines for their service.
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Muslim Brotherhood's caution should not be confused with moderation.
Jewish Studies in Decline?Monday, March 28, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Reports prepared recently for Israel's Council of Higher Education have brought despairing news about the condition of the humanities in the country's universities. Especially dispiriting is the report on Jewish studies, once the crowning glory of Israel's flagship Hebrew University—and, in the report's inadvertently nostalgic words, "an investment in the nurturing of the deep spiritual and cultural structures of Israeli public and private life." That investment has been producing ever smaller returns.
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An admiring new biography of Gandhi cannot help exposing the deformities of his character and his disastrous political judgment, not least in relation to Jews and Nazis.Hoop Dreams
Monday, March 28, 2011 by Jon Jaques | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
When he seized the opportunity to play professionally in Israel, a Cornell basketball star got much more than he bargained for.
