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American Orthodoxy and Its DiscontentsFriday, May 27, 2011 by Lawrence Grossman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A "case study in institutional decay": that description of Orthodox Judaism in America was offered in 1955 by the late sociologist Marshall Sklare. It has long since entered the gallery of scholarly misjudgments, acknowledged as such by Sklare when events turned out to belie his assessment.
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a bold statement, the Orthodox rabbi Shlomo Riskin has called for strengthening the Jewish relationship with Christians and Christianity: "we will find far more which unites us than divides us."Cities of Jewish Success
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From Bialystok in the east to Worms in the west, the story of great European centers of Jewish civilization is one of tremendous achievement followed, sooner or later, by crushing tragedy.An Israeli Nightingale
Friday, May 27, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Shalev Menashe, a boy soprano, rehearses an aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute and, on tour in Poland with the Raanana Symphony, sings "A Ray of Light" by Koby Oshrat. (Video) The Shalit Test
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Once Fatah and Hamas finalize their planned unity government, they will no longer be able to disclaim responsibility for the Israeli soldier kidnapped five years ago; how will Israel, and how will the West, respond?Laughing in the Darkness
Thursday, May 26, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A film about Sholem Aleichem, the rebellious genius who plumbed the depth of a Jewish world in crisis, and captured it with brilliant humor, will open in New York in July. (With trailer; video)Digging the First Shuls
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by Eric M. Meyers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Excavations in Israel over the past decades suggest that the synagogue may be a considerably older institution than once thought.Religious Macho
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi and mystic wants his followers to visit Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, where a student was shot to death by Palestinian police, precisely because it is dangerous.
The Russian WaveThursday, May 26, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, some one million Jews have come to Israel from the former Soviet Union (FSU), enlarging the country's population by 25 percent and forming the largest concentration in the world of Russian Jews. They have left their mark in almost every walk of life. And yet, as a group, they are still something of a mystery.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by David Schenker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Until now, Washington has imposed little cost on Damascus for its support of terrorism; with Gates v. Syrian Arab Republic, now on appeal, that may begin to change. (PDF)
