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The Tolerance PoliceTuesday, August 17, 2010 by Abe Greenwald | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For some supporters of the planned mosque at Ground Zero, preaching tolerance is just another way of impugning the arguments of opponents they cannot tolerate.A Film Unfinished
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 by Gary Goldstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To gripping and indelible effect, a new documentary of the Holocaust incorporates never-released outtakes from a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.On the 3rd-Century Synagogue at Dura-Europos
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Meyer Schapiro | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Where the artists borrowed from others, and where they were original and distinctive: a 1968 talk by a pre-eminent art historian. (PDF; Schapiro comments begin on page 6.)Making the Middle East Less Important
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Michael Mandelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
No available policy can make the region safe for the U.S. and the world; better to act so as to make the world safe from the region's pathologies.My Summer in Israel
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Ahmed Moustafa | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An Egyptian scientist asks: why shouldn't Arabs learn at Israeli universities, be mentored by Israeli professors, and go on to make a contribution to their own societies and to global science?City of Refuge
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Masada Siegel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A visit to the former Jewish areasĀ of Shanghai, where thousands of refugees from Nazism found shelter.No Census Consensus
Monday, August 16, 2010 by Carl Bialik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Census figures for American Muslims are inherently faulty; so, for different reasons, are the figures for American Jews.A Study in Contrasts
Friday, August 13, 2010 by George F. Will | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Barack Obama is a progressive post-nationalist, Benjamin Netanyahu is his antithesis.Where Christian Zionism Was Born
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Shalom Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why did certain 19th-century British thinkers and statesmen identify with "God's chosen people" and advocate their restoration to their ancient land?Lost in Mistranslation
Friday, August 13, 2010 by Joel M. Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If you read the Bible only in English, you won't quite get the 23rd Psalm and you might misinterpret what you shouldn't do with your neighbor's wife.

