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Exile and Expulsion in Jewish HistoryWednesday, December 9, 2009 by Yosef Hayyim Yerushalmi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Diaspora as home, diaspora as hell: a 1997 essay by the distinguished historian who died yesterday at the age of seventy-seven.Wanted: A Palestinian “Peace Now”
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Khaled ibn Toameh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the nearly two decades since the signing of the Oslo Accords, no grassroots peace camp has been discernible in either Ramallah or Gaza City.Bostoner Rebbe Dies
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Matthew Wagner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, the first American-born hassidic rebbe, split his time between Boston and Jerusalem, reached out to unaffiliated Jews, and was opposed to territorial concessions in the land of Israel.A Convenient Anti-Semitic Theme
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Rifat Bali | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Examining the belief that the massacres of Armenians in World War I were the result of a secret Jewish-Zionist-Freemason plot, and naming those, on different sides, who have benefited from spreading it.How Not to Fix the Middle East
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Martin Kramer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By its reluctance to uphold American primacy in the region, the administration has created a perilous vacuum of power.Kashrut: A Matter of Law, not Morality
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Daniel Alter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Unethical meat processors are no different from unethical merchants; keeping kosher is about something else entirely.
A Talmud for TodayTuesday, December 8, 2009 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In Israel and the United States, high-level Talmud study thrives today with an intensity unmatched since the days of the great East European yeshivot. Yet to most English readers the Talmud, the essential Jewish compendium of legal and narrative discussion, remains a closed book—or rather 63 books. All the more reason, then, to welcome a new and expertly edited 900-page selection from the “sea of the Talmud.” What if a dip into the ocean doesn’t suffice? Two English-language editions have come to the aid of the student unversed in the original languages or modes of rabbinic reasoning: a partial translation...
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Gina Thomas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography of Adam von Trott, executed for his part in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler, rescues the integrity of a bold voice at a miserable time.Yeshiva Students in Khaki
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As more Haredi students serve in the Israel Defense Forces, the monolithic isolation of the ultra-Orthodox world shows early signs of cracking.When and How Did Israel Become a People?
Monday, December 7, 2009 by Avraham Faust | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Religion aside, the archaeological evidence points to a date in the 13th century B.C.E.