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What Would Herzl Do?
Friday, April 30, 2010 by Gil Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Alighting in modern Israel on his 150th birthday, the founding father reacts with amazement, consternation, and a dream.
Philosophy as a Way of Life Philosophy as a Way of Life
Friday, April 30, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Philosophy literally means "love of wisdom." Yet a glance at contemporary academic philosophy is enough to make one ask, "What's love got to do with it?" How could such dry, tedious, soulless verbal excursions ever have been meaningful to anyone, let alone some of the greatest minds in history?  The answer is that in its origins philosophy was not an abstract theoretical enterprise but a way of being in the world--an exercise of reason in furtherance of a broader spiritual and moral regimen. Restoring this lost perspective was the work of the French intellectual historian Pierre Hadot, who died last week at...
Courage as a Jewish Religious Value
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Yitzchak Blau | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The virtue of courage is not always identified by that name in traditional sources, but those lacking it cannot ultimately stand for any other religious ideal.
Is Anti-Semitism a Disease?
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Warren Boroson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

And if so, is America immune? An interview with Alvin Rosenfeld on the origins, manifestations, and treatment of a resurgent pathology.
Imagined Communities Imagined Communities
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

"The plain sense of things," Wallace Stevens wrote, "had itself to be imagined." Without imagination, there is no culture, language, or for that matter any recognizably human life. But what happens to the "plain sense of things" in the computer age when, with the emergence of virtual reality and virtual community, imagined life can take over, subsume, or become a substitute for recognizably human life? The question presses itself with special urgency in the case of Judaism and the Jews. A specific people, a specific place, a framework of mitzvot laying emphasis on what we eat, utter, and do: all of these...
The Miracle-Worker of Mount Meron
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Nathan Jeffay | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On Sunday, Lag B'Omer, masses of Israelis will flock to a Galilee hilltop to appeal for intercession at the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai.
Fallout from the War on Jerusalem
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Jonathan Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In treating Jewish Jerusalem as just another illegal settlement, the administration has further dimmed the prospects for peace.
Who Speaks for British Jewry
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Winston Pickett | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new book on the tenure of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggests the need to abolish the position of chief rabbi; but most British Jews appear to disagree.
Human Rights Watch vs. Israel: An Inside Story
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 by Benjamin Birnbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A tale of bias and bigotry in the human-rights organization that is a major force in international politics.
An Unwelcoming Place
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the spread of anti-Semitic violence and the rise of a xenophobic right, is it not time for the Jews of Austria and Hungary to reassess their European future?
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