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B’shallah: Hands Up!Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
The stories in this week's reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, "Ancient Israel's Bipolar Moment." Or, even more flippantly, "Hands Up!"
Celebrity Politics, Israel-StyleWednesday, February 1, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Just two weeks ago, the always-excitable Israeli political world was abuzz with the news of two famous new Knesset candidates. One of them was a famous son—journalist Yair Lapid, whose father, Tommy Lapid, served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice under Ariel Sharon.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Sam Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Prohibition presented a dilemma for Jews: Should they insist on an exemption for sacramental wine, or break with the past for the sake of assimilation?Amid the Alien Corn
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
By 1965, the now-renowned Orthodox rabbi and writer Aryeh Kaplan had relinquished physics graduate school and took a pulpit position in Mason City, Iowa, at a congregation that only had a late Friday night service. (Part II; part I is here.) Sabra-Rattling
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Haim Shine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The latest survey on Israeli religion shows that Labor Zionism's attempt to replace Judaism with Israeliness has failed.The Big Lie Returns
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As long as the enemies of the Jews control the meaning of the term 'anti-Semitism,' Jews will remain vulnerable to the calumny that they alone are the authors of their own misfortune.Restrictions on the Reformation
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by Dean Phillip Bell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Hebraism which permeated the Reformation did not necessarily translate into increased tolerance of Jews.
Bloomsbury’s RabbiTuesday, January 31, 2012 by Matthew Ackerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A translator stands between two languages and between the two worlds that the languages represent. If he does his job well, he may belong in neither place. Such was the fate of Samuel Koteliansky, an emigré Russian Jew who translated Chekhov, befriended D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield, and circulated on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by Guy Bechor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Its rhetoric is as fierce as ever, but since it's been strangled in Jordan, expelled from Syria, and defunded by Iran, Hamas lacks the friends and money to match.“Subbotniks”
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by Eli Ashkenazi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In 1876, a community of converts left their native Russia to settle in the Galilee, forsaking their Christian past. Now their descendants are rediscovering their roots.
