Origins
Jewish-Christian Dialogue TodayMonday, February 21, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How do today's Jews and Christians encounter one another? The most obvious way is in the countless interactions of Jewish and Christian colleagues and acquaintances in a host of daily settings, including exchanges on their respective religious attitudes and experiences.
Blood LibelsMonday, January 31, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the unexpected consequences of the January 9 shooting tragedy in Tucson has been the introduction into American public discourse of a term seldom used and poorly understood.
The Huguenot ConnectionMonday, January 3, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the darkest hours of the Holocaust, the safest place for Jews in occupied Europe may have been the southern French hamlet of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
EasterThursday, April 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Around the world this weekend, Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter, the holiday marking the death and resurrection of Jesus and the culmination of the period of penitence that began with Ash Wednesday on February 17. The first bishops in Jerusalem were Jews, and so the early Christian community commemorated the Feast of the Resurrection on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, coinciding with the Jewish festival of Passover. In Temple times, the essential rite of Passover was the slaughter of a paschal lamb; the Christian Bible explicitly tied this ritual with Rome's crucifixion of Jesus:...
Was Dostoevsky a Scoundrel?The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), rightly known as a peerless master of psychological fiction, a fierce anti-socialist polemicist, an anti-romantic with a pulsingly romantic commitment to prophetic religion, and a dramatist of moral ideas without compare since the English poet John Milton, also happened to harbor an ugly fixation on the Jews.
Editors' Picks
The Contradictions of anti-Semitism Stanley Fish, New York Times. Are Jews a success story, or a plague? Victims, or victimizers? Devils, or God's chosen people? Thoughts on an "oversaturated" and shape-shifting stereotype.
From Our Archives: Easter The Editors, Jewish Ideas Daily. Around the world this weekend, Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter, the holiday marking the death and resurrection of Jesus and the culmination of the period of penitence that began with Ash Wednesday. To this day there is no denying that, for many Jews, Easter recalls dreadful memories.
Either/Or Alan Brill, Book of Doctrines and Opinions. Was the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard a theological anti-Semite, as a controversial new book claims?
Who Killed Jesus? John L. Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter. In a forthcoming book, the legal scholar Joseph Weiler argues that, in the events surrounding the death of Jesus, Jews were acting out their biblically mandated part in a divine drama of obedience.
Jews and Money Jerome Chanes, Forward. Two books on an old canard; or, why money may not be the root of all evil, but is the root of some.
Supersessionism: Alive and Well? David Turner, Jerusalem Post. How deeply embedded within present-day Christianity is the theological principle that the Jews have been replaced as God's chosen people?
The Devil Is in the Details Philologos, Forward. Christianity took the idea of Satan from the Jews and developed it much farther, including by associating the Jews themselves with the devil.
Is Anti-Semitism a Disease? Warren Boroson, Jewish Standard (New Jersey). And if so, is America immune? An interview with Alvin Rosenfeld on the origins, manifestations, and treatment of a resurgent pathology.
Battles of Paris Léa Khayata, Tablet. In the 19th arrondissement, anti-Semitism waxes and wanes, but remains a fact of life.
On the Study of Hate Eric Herschthal, Jewish Week. At Indiana University, a new center joins the handful of academic research institutes focusing on contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.