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Lady Gaga vs. Middle East PeaceThursday, April 1, 2010 by Bret Stephens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's settlements, the bugbear of both the Obama administration and Pat Buchanan, account for but a fraction of jihadist rage.Radical Judaism
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by David Wolpe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his latest book, the theologian Arthur Green argues that there is no Jewish chosenness since there is no Chooser, and that left-wing politics is a spiritual imperative.
Seder’s EndMonday, March 29, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The four cups have been drunk, the story has been told, and all have cried "Next Year in Jerusalem." Now comes the final act, one that, the late hour notwithstanding, it would be a pity to miss. The closing pages of the Haggadah, a mix of sacred hymns and humorous songs, highlight the entire narrative's arresting mix of playfulness and pedagogy, the fine line it walks between the memory of slavery and persecution and the celebration of survival and destiny. The hymns, most of them seemingly unconnected to the Seder itself, widen its angle of vision as we venture out to...
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jerry Z. Muller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Notably, and unlike in earlier times, America's current economic troubles are not being blamed on "the Jews."A Life with God
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Jay Lefkowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Judaism: A Way of Being, David Gelernter shows, in words and images, how Jewish experience echoes through and across all of Western experience.Unsplitting the (Song of the) Sea
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two long-separated fragments from a rare 8th-century Torah scroll are on dramatic display at Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book.Scholar and Mentor
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Ada Rapoport-Albert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the death at niney-three of a historian, bibliographer, and influential Jewish-studies professor at Oxford and the University of London.The Sabbath World
Monday, March 29, 2010 by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Even to one who doesn't observe the Jewish day of rest, Judith Shulevitz's new book makes an almost irresistible case for it.Persian Passover Pleasures
Friday, March 26, 2010 by Joan Nathan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For Iranian Jews in southern California, food and feasts are central to life.
HaggadahFriday, March 26, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It is hard to think of another classic Jewish text reprinted, rewritten, and re-imagined as often, or as divergently, as the Haggadah. The Passover Seder is the most ubiquitous Jewish observance—fully three-quarters of American Jews participate in a Seder of some kind, as do 80–95 percent of Israelis. The abundance of Haggadot, in other words, reflects the ubiquity of the observance. Of course, the Haggadah has long been a mirror of Jewish history. Once its text had stabilized by the dawn of the Middle Ages, it became the object of lavish and continuing attention on the part of commentators, illuminators, illustrators,...
