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ArtScroll, Inc.Friday, May 21, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Since its creation in 1976, the Orthodox publishing empire known as ArtScroll has brought out hundreds of titles: English translations of classic texts like the Bible, the siddur (prayer book), the Talmud, and others as well as self-help books, histories, biographies, fiction, and even cookbooks. All are marked by traditional scholarship, decent English, handsome and often innovative typography and graphics—and an unabashedly ultra-Orthodox (haredi) viewpoint. Advertised and marketed with acumen and zeal, ArtScroll has swept the English-speaking Orthodox world and made surprising inroads among non-Orthodox readers as well. A newly published study, Orthodox by Design, provides the first scholarly investigation of the...
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Evelyn Gordon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Bashar Assad believes, with reason, that he can get further by negotiating with Washington than by negotiating with Israel.Bible Breakthrough?
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Jonah Mandel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A study group asks whether, with computer technology, it might become possible—or necessary, or desirable—to reconstruct the ur-text of the Torah.Chaim Grade’s Legacy
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Joseph Berger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a sealed, book-cluttered apartment in the Bronx hold a Yiddish literary gold mine?Ritual Art or Ritual Hype
Friday, May 21, 2010 by Renee Ghert-Zand | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two events in San Francisco spark thoughts on art, fashion, and tradition.Israel and the OECD
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Joining the club of market-economy democracies will no doubt assist Israel's development and is a welcome "seal of approval," but the country needs more internal reforms.The State of Arab States
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the twenty-two members of the Arab League, an Arab writer finds not a single representative state; actually there is one, if a fragile one.Scotland’s Jewry
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Billy Briggs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Numbering 10,000 souls and dwindling, the community faces its worst period of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation in decades.Mentored by Gauguin
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Paris exhibit reestablishes Meijer de Haan, an energetic painter inspired by Jewish themes, as a considerable artistic force.
Israel’s Nuclear WeaponsTuesday, May 18, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On April 5, 2009, speaking before throngs of supporters in a Prague square, President Barack Obama declared America's commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. With this as an apparent impetus, the Arab world has pressed for greater international attention to . . . Israel's nuclear activities. It did so most recently at a Washington conference devoted to keeping nuclear materials out of terrorist hands, and at a subsequent review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at UN headquarters in New York. Under Arab prodding, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., issued a statement calling...
