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Watering JerusalemWednesday, 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.)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.
Into the Muck; or, Trials of the DiasporaTuesday, May 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A London-based lawyer with the firm of Mishcon de Reya, Anthony Julius has the unusual distinction of being a solicitor-advocate—that is, a solicitor who can also appear in court. He was on the defense team in the suit filed against the historian Deborah Lipstadt by the Holocaut denier David Irving; he has participated in litigating many cases bearing on the interests of Israel; and he represented Princess Diana in the last years of her life. A first-rate scholar, he is also the author of T. S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995), Idolizing Pictures: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Jewish Art (2001),...
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.Secret Agent of al-Qaeda?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Scott Shane and Souad Mekhennet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American-born imam who preached peace before 9/11 has been exposed as a principal preacher of jihadist violence to English-speaking Muslims.Why Grandmas Love Mah Jongg
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Avi Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Chinese-derived game that became a Jewish-American tradition. (With audio slide show.)What “Coexistence”?
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Bataween | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A glowing report in Haaretz misrepresents the reality of Moroccan Jewish life.
Europa EuropaMonday, May 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe will be marked this week with speeches, parades, and, one imagines, more than a little concern. The free-fall of the Greek economy has exposed enormous fault lines in the economic institutions of the European Union and the moral community on which it rests. Similarly concentrating the European mind are the recent electoral success of the far-right Jobbik party in Hungary, Russia's swift victory over Georgia and NATO in August 2008, and the challenge presented by the swelling numbers of Muslims and by militant Islam to the new Europe's...
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Fouad Ajami | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Living on the seam between the Old Country and the New World, multitudes like Faisal Shahzad make up a deadly breed of combatants in a new kind of war.