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What’s Left?Friday, November 12, 2010 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Usually, when Israelis speak of Left and Right, they are differentiating mainly between security hawks and peace-camp doves—not between liberals and conservatives in general, or in the American or European sense. By this definition, Israel's left wing is in a sorry state.
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Claire Berlinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why most Turks do not know even the rudimentary facts about Hamas, let alone anything about what really happened on the Mavi Marmara.In Retreat
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Jeff Landaw and Martha Landaw | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Legal inflexibility and blanket opposition to change are rendering modern Orthodoxy less modern and more Orthodox, argues an Orthodox rabbi.Iran’s Arab Puppet
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Farid Ghadry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Syrian President Assad is flexing his muscles, but Iran is pulling the strings.A Saint of the Ledger
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recently auctioned account book reveals a Cincinnati rabbi's valiant and meticulously recorded efforts to rescue European Jewish leaders from the Nazis.Start-Up Continent?
Friday, November 12, 2010 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New initiatives dedicated to Jewish education and culture proliferate across Europe, even as European Jewry's numbers stagnate or decline.Broken Glass, Breached Wall
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Michael Slackman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two seminal events happened in Germany on November 9: Kristallnacht in 1938, and the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Is the former now remembered only by Jews?The Way to Civilization
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Abby Wisse Schachter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
. . . is through the stomach, argues the new Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.Hearing it Every Which Way
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Elijah (1846), an oratorio by the baptized Felix Mendelssohn, has been interpreted as evincing Christian sentiments, Jewish sentiments, both, and neither.Supersessionism: Alive and Well?
Thursday, November 11, 2010 by David Turner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How deeply embedded within present-day Christianity is the theological principle that the Jews have been replaced as God's chosen people?
