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Rothschild Boulevard is Not Tahrir SquareWednesday, August 3, 2011 by Moshe Arens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's middle-class protest movement may have been inspired by the "Arab Spring," but the two have nothing in common-and besides, Israelis can always change their government.
Reconstructing JudaismWednesday, August 3, 2011 by Joseph J. Siev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
At a time when all three major Jewish denominations in America—Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—find themselves in a state of deep internal fracture, a fourth and much smaller movement, Reconstructionism, has just voted to create a unified body to coordinate the activities of its lay and rabbinical arms.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 by Seth Chalmer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite what some modern Jews think, particularism is not the enemy of universalism; quite the contrary.Is Hizballah in Trouble?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by Shimon Shapira | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Severely weakened by, among other things, the shaky condition of the Assad regime in Syria, the terrorist group is looking for a pretext to assert its dominance by confronting Israel.Number Theory
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by Roy Abrams | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jews are well represented among winners of the Fields Medal, the highest honor given by the International Congress of Mathematicians; Elon Lindenstrauss joins them as the first Israeli-born medalist.Where’s Wallenberg?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by Arthur Max | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New evidence suggests that Moscow may be withholding information helpful in solving the 66-year-old puzzle of the fate of the great hero of the Holocaust.Out of Hungary
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by Guy Miron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Following the Nazi rise to power, a group of mostly Jewish Hungarians made their way to the United States, where they produced exceptional achievements in science and art.
Lives of the Ex-HaredimTuesday, August 2, 2011 by Joshua Halberstam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"Wherefore art thou Romeo?" Juliet calls out in pristine Yiddish from the heights of her fire escape. Melissa (Malky) Weisz, who plays Juliet in the recent film Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish, probably asked the same question in a more vernacular Yiddish—and with very different expectations—in her earlier life.
Monday, August 1, 2011 by Michael S. Doran and Salman Shaikh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The U.S. can't stop the flow of blood immediately, but it can significantly reduce the number of needless deaths, hasten defections from the regime, and facilitate a genuine transition.What Missing Million Israelis?
Monday, August 1, 2011 by Yogev Karasenty and Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contrary to a recent, radically distorted estimate, the percentage of native-born Israelis leaving the country is comparable to that of many other developed nations.
