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Who Killed Hebrew in America?Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Cynthia Ozick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Who could have foretold an eruption of Hebrew-generative genius on the American continent—which, having no offspring, then came to nothing?The Munich Files
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Gunther Latsch and Klaus Wiegrefe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Files just released on the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics show that the terrorists received assistance from German neo-Nazis—who were let off virtually scot-free.“Rabbi, do we Jews believe in reincarnation?”
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by Hyim Shafner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Knowing full well that much of Kabbalah, philosophy, and even Midrash does accept the notion of reincarnation, I tried to muster a definitive 'No!'" The More Deceived
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Palestinian rhetoric is not merely based on lies; it does not consider truth to be a value. And Western critical filters are more eroded than ever.Disunited Synagogue
Monday, June 18, 2012 by David Cesarani | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While some at the New Statesman may still believe Jews to be a powerful enemy within, Anglo-Jewry has never agreed on anything—whether religious practice, Zionism, or the admittance of Jewish refugees.

Monday, June 18, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jews and Catholics in the English-speaking world have so much in common that they ought to make common cause more often than they actually do. The friction between them that sometimes catches fire is, as often as not, based on mutual ignorance and mistrust.
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Andrew Esensten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Praised by Ben-Gurion as the Diaspora's most important contribution to the nascent state, the overseas volunteers in the War of Independence finally have an exhibit in their honor.The Idealist and the Pragmatist
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Daniel Bouskila | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two of Israel's Sephardic chief rabbis, Benzion Meir Hai Uziel and Ovadia Yosef, had strikingly different views about how Sephardic traditions were to meet Ashkenazic ones in Israel.Can a Small Country Have a Big Heart?
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Searches and arrests, erecting of border fences, bolstering of guard units, kicking out poor migrants—all these scenes will now become a chapter in Jewish history. Israel has no other choice.Johnny Cash’s Christian Zionism
Monday, June 18, 2012 by David Brinn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
June Carter Cash "had a dream in which Johnny was preaching to the multitudes at the Sea of Galilee, and she was intent on seeing him do it for real."