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Dining under Siege
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Ronit Vered | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

On display at a museum in Jerusalem is the largest and most beautiful collection of Crusader kitchen utensils ever discovered in Israel.
Light on the “1967 Lines”
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Yaacov Lozowick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Relinquishing Israeli control of most of the West Bank is one thing: relinquishing a military presence is something different.
What Got into the Scots?
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Eileen F. Toplansky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Scotland once prided itself on being the only European country with no history of anti-Semitism. Times have changed.
The Year that Changed the World
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Charles Hill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In 1979, Islamists grabbed the Middle East, and the world, by the throat. They haven't let go since.
Between the Lines
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Jonathan Neumann | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An in-depth report on life in the Jewish settlements of the West Bank, and the people who live it.
Russia’s Jewish Spring
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Benjamin Weinthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The opening of a Jewish-studies department at St. Petersburg State University marks a quiet triumph for Jewish academic, cultural, and religious life in Russia.
A Hand in Friendship
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alan Brill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a bold statement, the Orthodox rabbi Shlomo Riskin has called for strengthening the Jewish relationship with Christians and Christianity: "we will find far more which unites us than divides us."
Cities of Jewish Success
Friday, May 27, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

From Bialystok in the east to Worms in the west, the story of great European centers of Jewish civilization is one of tremendous achievement followed, sooner or later, by crushing tragedy.
An Israeli Nightingale
Friday, May 27, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Shalev Menashe, a boy soprano, rehearses an aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute and, on tour in Poland with the Raanana Symphony, sings "A Ray of Light" by Koby Oshrat. (Video)     
Damascus on Trial
Thursday, May 26, 2011 by David Schenker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Until now, Washington has imposed little cost on Damascus for its support of terrorism; with Gates v. Syrian Arab Republic, now on appeal, that may begin to change. (PDF)