Search Results
You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.
Peace from the Bottom-UpMonday, February 14, 2011 by Natan Sharansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As fresh winds sweep the Arab Middle East, the former Soviet political prisoner and author of The Case for Democracy is feeling a certain vindication. (Interview by David Horovitz.)Be My (Jewish) Valentine
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Everett Gendler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why does Cupid, the Roman god of love, appear above the main entrance of the synagogue at Capernaum in Israel, as well as on Jewish paintings and sarcophagi in Rome? Graying the Line
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Sam Munson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Do literary treatments of the Holocaust necessarily trivialize the horror? According to Ruth Franklin, everything depends on the artist at work, and the artistry. A Christian Ketubah
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Samuel G. Freedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The traditional wedding contract joins Passover seders and kosher food among Jewish practices incorporated by Gentiles acting out of a variety of impulses.If You Will It–African-Style
Monday, February 14, 2011 by Danna Harman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As South Sudan moves toward independence, hundreds of refugees who sought asylum in Israel are returning to build the new state; one of them is hoping to duplicate the Israeli kibbutz there.
The New York Times Revises the Peace ProcessMonday, February 14, 2011 by Sol Stern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"The Peace Plan that Almost Was and Still Could Be": blazoned over the entire cover of the February 13 New York Times Magazine, the sensation-seeking headline comes accompanied by a photograph from the back of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, each with his arm around the other.
Friday, February 11, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new poll reveals, at the moment, low support for Muhammad el-Baradei, little sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, and more support for than opposition to the peace treaty with Israel.
Skeletons in the Closet of HasidismFriday, February 11, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Popular demands for transparency in our institutions and the availability of technological means to achieve it have made it hard to keep secrets. This has affected the conduct not only of government and business but also of religion.
Friday, February 11, 2011 by Josh Nathan-Kazis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shrinkage and shakeup in the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist denominations suggest that all of liberal Judaism is in a state of imminent crisis.Profiting from Loss?
Friday, February 11, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book challenges the widespread view among Poles that their nation behaved honorably under Nazi occupation.
