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Music for a Splintered SocietyFriday, January 29, 2010 by Dan Shvartsman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a wildly successful musical project, Israel's fractious diversity is at least momentarily harmonized.Frisco Kids
Friday, January 29, 2010 by Dan Pines | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reasons to celebrate a new and comprehensive history of Jews in the San Francisco Bay Area.Israel Made Me Do It
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Phyllis Chesler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Deconstructing the sponsorship, the methods, and the conclusions of a study in Britain's premier medical journal on why Palestinian men beat their wives.How Hard?
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In going from extreme optimism to extreme pessimism on the Middle East, Obama has been wrong at least twice over.Equals in Responsibility
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Michael Graetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a modern-Orthodox rabbi in New York confers on a woman the title of "rabba," a Conservative rabbi in Israel finds support for sexual egalitarianism in the Bible.The Gift of Life
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Sally Satel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a praiseworthy initiative, Israel now encourages organ donation by compensating families of deceased donors.Oscar and the Jews
Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Naomi Pfefferman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Opinion is divided on depictions of Jewish characters and themes in three potential Academy Award nominees.
Holocaust DaysThursday, January 28, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Yesterday, Shimon Peres delivered an address, in Hebrew, before the Bundestag as Germany and other nations marked International Holocaust Day, commemorating the date in 1945 when Soviet forces arrived at Auschwitz. Israeli and American Jews conduct their own Holocaust remembrances in the spring, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, uneasy with the Zionist emphasis on force and resistance, hold their memorials on the tenth of Tevet, one of the traditional fast days for the destruction of the Temple. In short, the Holocaust remains as open to interpretation, reinterpretation—and misunderstanding—as is the hole it blew through all the history...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Elliott Horowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Brief reflections on a century's worth of scholarship, biblical and otherwise.Religious Zionism in Crisis
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Shlomo Brody | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza the movement appears to have lost its way, even as it retains its vital energy.
