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Drops to DrinkWednesday, February 3, 2010 by David Newman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's multi-year drought has broken, but a successful water policy touches on everything from supply to issues of economics, politics, and geopolitics.Against Tolerance
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Appealing to Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, a young scholar reassesses the leveling effects of a modern concept that denies religion's claims to election and truth.The Deerlift
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Charles Levinson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some 500 fallow deer in today's Israel descend from four secretly airlifted out of Tehran on the eve of the 1978 Khomeinist takeover.The Italian Exception
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Dan Segre | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under a government unusually supportive of Israel, a small Jewish community evinces signs of vitality and resolve.Living by the Moon
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Yoni Kempinski | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Report, with video, of a conference on the lunar calendar and Jewish tradition.Wall Street and Main Street
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Ira Stoll | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book illuminates the long and complicated relationship among Jews, capitalism, and anti-Semitism.
Goldstone, Again and BeyondTuesday, February 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The UN's Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead has taken on a life of its own. Late last week, Israel submitted its own official version of its military operations in Gaza, to which UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon is expected to respond today. Within Israel, calls for an independent commission of inquiry have found a prominent ally in the state's outgoing attorney general. Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz, alongside his substantive criticisms of the Goldstone Report, has denounced its author as a Jewish traitor. Intentionally or not, the Report has become a powerful element in the mounting international campaign—warfare conducted as "lawfare"—to delegitimize Israel's very existence as...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In fact, the European destruction all but killed the dream of Zionism.Planning the Family
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Ari Enkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A noted Orthodox authority argues that, contrary to widespread impression, Jewish religious law permits birth control for health and other legitimate concerns, including economic ones.
Tikkun OlamMonday, February 1, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
If Israel's army was especially conspicuous during the early rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti, other Jewish agencies have been working on or behind the scenes as well. Among them is a coalition coordinated by the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish relief agency in continuous operation since World War I. According to the coalition's website, its Haiti-related work "demonstrates the age-old Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, or helping to repair the world." The phrase tikkun olam is indeed age-old, but its traditional meaning is very far from present-day connotations. The term originally appears in the second-century Mishnah to denote a specific set of...
