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America and the Jews: Different, or the Same?Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In 2004, a commemorative medal marking the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America quoted, on one side, from George Washington's letter assuring the Jews of Newport, R.I. of their rightful place in the fledgling republic of the United States; the reverse side portrayed huddled masses of Jews yearning to breathe free; around the outer edge, in Hebrew and English, ran the biblical passage, "proclaim liberty throughout the land."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
This week's reading offers a new sort of narrative. Behind us are the laconic, overtly symbolic, context-free tales of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, and the Tower of Babel. Now, with the stories of Abraham, we get for the first time a kind of biographical sketch, a whole series of episodes spanning many chapters and forming a coherent portrait of a life.The Chabad Paradox
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Abraham Socher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By the one standard that it has set itself, what is possibly the most successful Jewish religious movement of the late 20th century has failed. (From the Fall issue, out this week.)Missing in Academic Action
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Or Kashti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the study of Hebrew literature is in drastic decline, and so is the study of the humanities in general.Dishonorable
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry and Tom Tugend | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In awarding an honorary Oscar to the French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Hollywood's Motion Picture Academy will be celebrating a notoriously vocal anti-Semite.Sigd!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Greer Fay Cashman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Operation Moses, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday is celebrated by a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Rav OvadiaTuesday, October 12, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
One of the more outsized personalities in Israel's history is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the longtime head of the Shas political party, who has just marked his ninetieth birthday. The foreign public knows of him, vaguely, as a right-wing fanatic. But the truth and perhaps the tragedy of the man are far more complicated and fascinating.
The J Street ScandalMonday, October 11, 2010 by Benjamin Kerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The recent scandal involving the lobbying group J Street, a liberal organization founded in 2008 that bills itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace," may seem to some like a tempest in a teapot. In fact it is very significant, especially to anyone concerned about Israel, its future, and its relationship to the United States.
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The American Jewish community hardly suffers from a dearth of younger leaders; but where do they mean to lead it? A new report. (PDF)A Tale of Two Galloways
Monday, October 11, 2010 by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reconstructing the true authorship and subsequent history of the famous assertion, made in 1952, that the Arab states have exploited the Palestinian refugees as a tool against Israel.
