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The Economist Strikes AgainFriday, January 7, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The Economist is a curious publication. A weekly newsmagazine published in London, it largely hews to a classical liberal (or libertarian) line in economics and a correspondingly conservative line in politics. In contrast to most newsmagazines today, it is also a rousing success.
Friday, January 7, 2011 by David Eisner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Major Jewish entities are investing millions to combat the delegitimization of Israel, even as they sometimes unwittingly support it. (For a rebuttal, click here.) Home Stand
Friday, January 7, 2011 by James Kirchick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Central Asian ties to Iran, compounded with the legacy of Soviet persecution, have made Jewish life more difficult in Tajikistan.Ancient People, Modern Trials
Friday, January 7, 2011 by Helena Merriman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Samaritans have lived in the Middle East for thousands of years; can they secure their future?Black Pearls
Friday, January 7, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Parkinson's disease has not deterred Imre Kertész, Auschwitz survivor and Nobel laureate, from continuing to produce his turbulent writings. (With videos in Hungarian and French.)Tzedakah Tourism
Friday, January 7, 2011 by Matthew Kalman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some, wealthy or not, travel to Israel to monitor their existing charities and to investigate new opportunities for helping the needy.Seismic Shift
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Simon Henderson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although the natural-gas discoveries in Israel seem unlikely to change the world, they could certainly change the Eastern Mediterranean.Bo: The Point of the Exodus
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Nothing God does in the Bible is as self-consciously over-the-top as the Exodus. This week's reading shares the most intense moment thus far in the lives of the already harried Israelite slaves.Conjuring Szyk
Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Joel Schechter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new exhibit highlights the commitment to freedom of the Polish-born illustrator best known for his edition of the Passover Haggadah. (With slideshow.)
Who Needs Hebrew?Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 1967, on a visit to Jerusalem, the American novelist Saul Bellow met Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel's Nobel laureate in literature. "This spare old man," Bellow would recall, "asked me if any of my books had been translated into Hebrew. If they had not been, I had better see to it immediately, because, he said, they would survive only in the Holy Tongue."
