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Against the Mosque at Ground Zero
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Khudhayr Taher | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In an Arab online daily, an Iraqi-American columnist charges that the mosque in downtown Manhattan will spread extremism and pose a danger to the security of the United States.
“What Does Any of This Have to Do with Us?”
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The great challenge of the moment is posed by a generation of young American Jewish intellectuals and communal leaders without any instinctive bond to Israel.
Pluralism, Personal Religion, and Tradition
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Gidon Rothstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

There is more room for individualism within halachic Judaism than some realize—and less than others assert.
Lament of an Intermarried Wife
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

She left the Orthodoxy she was born into; he, a convert, embraced it.
“Herr Professor-Doktor” Nikolaus Pevsner
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The author of a monumental, multi-volume survey of British architecture was born a Jew, converted to Christianity, and in the early 1930's sympathized with aspects of Nazism.
Lifeline
Friday, May 28, 2010 by Ariel Hirschfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On display in Jerusalem are the young Avigdor Arikha's illustrations to a story by S.Y. Agnon in one the most beautiful Hebrew books ever published.
Mormons for Israel
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Mark Paredes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The church has a record, often forgotten today, of continuous support for the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
It’s Magic It’s Magic
Thursday, May 27, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

"Spirituality," a key phrase of our time, suggests a yearning for contact with an ungraspable realm beyond earthly experience. Yet for most of history, the spiritual realm was deemed eminently graspable indeed—as is evidenced by a fascinating exhibit now in Jerusalem.
Syria is Back
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by H. Varulkar and N. Mozes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Damascus, with the acquiescence of the Arab world, is once again the suzerain over Lebanon.
Aryans of the World Unite?
Thursday, May 27, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

What, if anything, connects the words "Iran" and "Aryan" with Aryanism?
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