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The Brandeis-Oren Flap
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Hilary Leila Krieger | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A petition supporting the choice of Israel's ambassador as Brandeis commencement speaker has gathered four times as many student signers as an earlier petition to rescind the invitation.
Keeper of the Flame
Thursday, May 13, 2010 by Marissa Brostoff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

With the death of the contentious widow of Chaim Grade, it may at last become possible for readers to have wider access to the works of the great Yiddish writer.
Jerusalem as She Was
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Eliyahu Porush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Vivid personal recollections of daily life in the city's Jewish community during the early 1900's. (With photos.)
Watering Jerusalem
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Tom Powers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Does a medieval aqueduct, newly exposed in an archaological dig, lie over the route of the ancient aqueduct first built in the Hasmonean period? (With photos.)
Jerusalem Day
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A capsule history of the June 1967 events leading up to the liberation of the Old City, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall, and the declaration of the holiday celebrated today. (With audio and video.)
Jerusalem: The Scandal of Particularity
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Norman Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Reflections on a city that is not only the capital of present-day Israel but the capital, as it were, of Judaism and the Jewish people.
Ancient Jerusalem to Scale
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Miriam Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A stunning model of the city during the Second Temple period is on permanent outdoor exhibit at the Israel Museum.
The Central Question
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A recent poll shows a small minority of Arabs who already accept Israel as a Jewish state; expanding this base would go a long way toward resolving the conflict and moving on to the region's real problems.
Economic Vindication
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Israel's admission to the OECD affirms the country's extraordinary strides despite unrelenting security threats, diplomatic onslaughts, and the task of absorbing waves of immigrants.
One Thousand and One Nights: Too Jewish?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Some of its stories are of Jewish origin; King Solomon plays a role in others.