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The Rothschilds of the East?Friday, July 2, 2010 by Richard I. Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a recently closed Paris exhibition: the munificent artistic legacy of a family whose career began in Istanbul in the late 18th century and ended at Auschwitz.Customs and Ceremonies
Friday, July 2, 2010 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On a massive 18th-century book that illustrated the diverse religious lives, and the underlying common humanity, of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, native Americans, and Jews.
TypographyThursday, July 1, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In the Book of Genesis, the Hebrew language is the very stuff of creation. The Talmud tells us (Menahot 29b) that Rabbi Akiva would derive new laws from the "crowns" of Hebrew letters. In the Kabbalah, the shape of the letters is said to reflect the shape of God's own inner being. What type of type can do justice to any of this?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by David Pollock | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.Fanatics Have No Fun
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Asef Bayat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)Making Music to His Name
Thursday, July 1, 2010 by Dennis Prager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed?Doubting the Divine
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Adam Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The dilemma of liberal Judaism, a new anthology suggests, is that its theologians can barely mouth the word "God" without a blizzard of qualifications.Archaeological Politics
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Hershel Shanks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Only in Israel are politically motivated critics permitted to obstruct even the most impeccably conducted digs.From Ally to Enemy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Michael Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Turkey, the only successful Muslim country in the Middle East, is today an Islamic republic in all but name.
