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Where is Israel’s Capital?Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Tel Aviv, to judge from the location of the U.S. embassy. In lately re-emphasizing this refusal to acknowledge reality, President Obama has won the praise of the Palestinian Authority.Chagall at Work
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Susan Tumarkin Goodman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A priceless sketchbook containing two decades' worth of the artist's responses to global and personal experience is up for auction at Sotheby.Foreskin Man
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Brad A. Greenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The debate over circumcision in San Francisco is devoid of anti-Semitic overtones. To the contrary: the anti-Semitism is explicit and inescapable.But is It Art?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Nir Hasson and Yair Ettinger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A radical ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemite is scanning his treasures—20,000 street posters assaulting secular Jews and the state of Israel—for uploading to the country's national library.A Shavuot Enigma
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Jo Milgrom and Joel Duman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Mt. Sinai, God gave the Torah to the Israelites encamped in the desert below. Why, then, in an illuminated manuscript from 1296, are the Israelites shown crowded behind a window, inside the mountain? (PDF)Blocking Palestinian Statehood
Monday, June 6, 2011 by John Bolton | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the General Assembly to recognize Palestinian "statehood" does not automatically mean UN membership, but it would be damaging nonetheless. Here's how it can be prevented.The Roundup
Monday, June 6, 2011 by David Pryce-Jones | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new film stirringly dramatizes the German campaign to destroy the Jews of wartime France. That was then; today, journalists and others speak matter-of-factly of the destruction of Israel.Identity à la Carte
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Ruth Ellen Gruber | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A generation after the fall of Communism, Jews in Central Europe feel comfortable where they live; though concerned about anti-Semitism, they do not wish to move to Israel.A New Approach to the Holocaust
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ideology, charisma, conformism, hatred, greed, war: not one but all were critical factors in the manifold evil of the Nazi genocide, set in motion by both policy and politics.Should Britain’s Chief Rabbi be Elected?
Monday, June 6, 2011 by Simon Rocker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some are calling for an American-style campaign for the position, and are even proposing the names of U.S. candidates.

