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Yom Kippur at SeaMonday, September 20, 2010 by Sam Kestenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year.J Street Blues
Monday, September 20, 2010 by Adam Kredo | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is an organization supposedly focused on Israel taking stances on abortion and other issues in American domestic politics?Defending Israel, Defending the West
Friday, September 17, 2010 by José María Aznar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Delegitimizing Israel undermines our identity, warps our values, and puts at risk what we are and who we are." A September 15 speech in Washington, D.C.
Heed the PowerFriday, September 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A centerpiece of the Yom Kippur liturgy, as of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy before it, is an ancient, unnerving poem known by its opening words: U'netaneh tokef. In a day of high drama designed to rouse a no less dramatic inner journey of introspection and atonement, this prayer, chanted by the hazzan before the open ark, has for centuries exercised a unique power, at once terrifying and shriving, over the hearts and minds of all who hear it.
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Leah Berkenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ray Frank, a self-described "stout opponent" of women's rights, became the first woman in memory to speak from a synagogue pulpit, delivering an 1890 Rosh Hashanah sermon.Balfour and Beyond
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Itamar Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 1917 decision, deriving as much from British geopolitical interests as from the unrelenting efforts of Chaim Weizmann, engendered historical consequences that are still unfolding.Marjorie at Fifty-Five
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Rachel Gordan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Like her creator Herman Wouk, the fictional Everygirl who happened to be Jewish was more a maverick than the bourgeois conformist she has been called.Royal Seat
Friday, September 17, 2010 by Ronen Shnidman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his highly decorated private theater at Herodion, King Herod occupied the box of honor, now uncovered by archaeologists. Falafelism
Thursday, September 16, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Montreal to Haifa, a documentary film records the search for the world's best falafel. (With video.)
The Best Proletarian Novel Ever WrittenThursday, September 16, 2010 by D.G. Myers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Comparisons between the Great Depression and current economic conditions "remain relevant," says the financial columnist Robert Samuelson—"and unsettling." Economic growth for this year's second quarter was a paltry 1.6 percent; unemployment hovers above 9.5 percent; sales of existing homes have fallen to their lowest rate in more than a decade; consumers show little sign of having recovered their confidence. At such a moment, American literature must surely be ripe for a revival of the Marxist-inspired "proletarian novel."