Search Results

Search for    in    All Categories Daily Features Daily Picks The Weekly Portion   

You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.

I Shall Be Released

"On June 12, two dozen state security officials barged into my hostel room, handcuffed and blindfolded me, and transported me to their general prosecutor." Reflections on a detention in Egypt.Music, Conscience, and the Third Reich

By the end of the war it was impossible to claim that art-music was intrinsically improving or ennobling. Although it might have soothed a mass-murderer's savage breast, it had also steadied his gun.Native Son

After Gen. David Petraeus, the greatest single influence on American counterinsurgency practice in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Tunisian-born Jew who has been dead more than 40 years.Re-Inventing the Statue of Liberty

Where did Emma Lazarus's ideas come from? She was not an immigrant; she was a fourth-generation American. And she was not among the huddled masses: her family was among New York's wealthiest. Extremism, Ideology, Reform

We hear a lot about the ultra-Orthodox community's fractious encounters with outsiders. But is this growing extremism a reaction to dramatic changes within ultra-Orthodoxy itself?Three Talmudists Confront the Evil Urge

A symposium on the psychological, historical, and rabbinic development of the yetzer hara picks up where Jewish Ideas Daily left off.      Earthly Gardens

In defiance of the Holocaust, novelist Giorgio Bassani claims the Jamesian right to draw the circumference of his work where he wants it, where it is most artistically fitting.Japan’s Inner Israel

Both Japan and Israel rose from deprivation to prosperity in, historically speaking, the blink of an eye. But now Israel is punching far above its economic weight, while Japan can't seem to get off the mat. What happened?A Grief Observed

"Three and a half months it took me, but today when I woke I knew all of a sudden; all at once I was filled with the desire, with the need, to visit your grave": a young widower's kaddish.