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What Israel Ta-Shma SawMonday, June 14, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Among the 7,000 new titles featured in Israel's annual book festival last week was the fourth, final, and—sadly—posthumous volume of studies by Israel Ta-Shma (1936–2004), one of the great rabbinic scholars of modern times.
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Ted A. Smith and Amy-Jill Levine | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new report on Israel by the U.S. Presbyterian Church bears false witness against Jews and the Jewish state.Questions for Amos Oz
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Dina Porat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The renowned author asserts that "Hamas is an idea." What kind of idea, exactly?Adult Children of the Dream
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Lawrence Rifkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Of the 270 kibbutzim in Israel, many are doing very well indeed. But what now defines a kibbutz?The Samaritans’ Temple?
Monday, June 14, 2010 by Chaim Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At the peak of Mount Gerizim lie the well-preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old city.Changing the Geopolitical Game
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Gal Luft | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The recent discovery of a gigantic deposit of natural gas can not only solve Israel's own energy predicament but create an export bonanza with strategic consequences.Israel’s War, and Ours
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Stephen Pollard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How is the Jewish state to survive?
Psychoanalysis: A Jewish Science?Friday, June 11, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How Jewish was your childhood home? To this query, Anna Freud responded: "more than people think, and less than I remember." Her quip does double duty: illustrating the porous boundaries of memory, fact, and interpretation that psychoanalysis has sought to clarify and disturb, and highlighting a question surrounding the enterprise since its inception. How Jewish is it?
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Miriam Shaviv | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On its left wing, Orthodoxy harbors a generation mixing literacy and adherence with an absurdist attitude toward traditional religious structures.Eastern Europe, Online
Friday, June 11, 2010 by Shoshana Olidort | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A multi-volume YIVO encyclopedia opens a free window onto 1,000 years of Jewish life.
