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Beyond BruriahWednesday, September 21, 2011 by Judith Hauptman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contrary to a long-held scholarly belief, women in the rabbinic period did learn Torah—in their own way.Showdown, Moses
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by Alon Ben-Meir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Egyptian mob ransacking Israel's embassy in Cairo, threatening the lives of the Israeli personnel inside: Is this what the revolutionaries wanted?The Land of Gas and Honey
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Robin M. Mills | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's giant new natural gas find will transform the Middle East—and add more fuel to an already combustible region.Separating Church and Campaign Statements
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Michael Medved | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Rick Perry should learn from the Turner victory in New York that political arguments based on religious solidarity are non-starters.Her Secret
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Isabel Schwab | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography of Coco Chanel distinguishes itself by tackling the thorny subject of the designer's activities during World War II.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ten years ago, the first day of Rosh Hashanah—the two-day Jewish New Year—fell on September 18. That was one week after September 11, 2001, when almost 3,000 people were killed by Muslim terrorists. On that Rosh Hashanah, rabbis did not lack for sermon topics.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by L. Barkan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jordan's official expressions of support for Palestinian statehood can't conceal the cooling of relations between the two sides.Suffer the Little Children
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by Rachel Burstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Are Jewish day school graduates preoccupied with historical persecution?“Frum” Week
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Emily Langowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For seven days, a Yale senior raised in the Reform movement alters her dress, her habits, and her ritual behavior to try out "a different way of connecting to God."How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot!
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As his letters to colleagues and friends reveal, the anti-Semitic impulses of the great poet were deep, but varied in intensity and consistency according to circumstances.