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Syria and Iran: Next StepsFriday, June 24, 2011 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To hasten Assad's demise, much can be done by Washington without resort to military force; thwarting Tehran's nuclear ambitions requires restoring the credibility of the U.S. military option.Who is the Wicked Child?
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Responding to an essay by a Village Voice editor on the loss of her Zionist "innocence."On Torah and Judaism
Friday, June 24, 2011 by James L. Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Interviewed in Moscow, the eminent scholar talks about his life, his career, and the tension between what he does as a student of the Bible and how he lives as a Jew. (Video)Israel’s Pompeii
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under the Ottoman-era alleyways of Akko (Acre), a sleepy port city whose history dates back 4,500 years, archaeologists are uncovering an intact Crusader city.
Following the Strong HorseFriday, June 24, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Druse physician from the Golan Heights, who works at an Israeli hospital, was one of 24 members of his community arrested for pummeling IDF troops with rocks during so-called Naksa Day protests. Just where do Druse loyalties lie?
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Chaim Steinmetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Circumcision is incompatible with advanced 21st-century values; so, to its credit, is much of Judaism.
The Osirak PrecedentThursday, June 23, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In May 1981, eight Israeli fighter jets were on the runway waiting for the go-ahead to execute the most daring operation ever undertaken by the Israeli air force: flying more than 1,000 miles east over enemy territory to destroy Osirak, Iraq's nuclear reactor.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
U.S. and Israeli policy makers have yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to trade the Golan Heights for a peace deal with Syria is and always was a far-fetched dream.Sharansky on Bonner
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Gal Beckerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Andrei Sakharov was "the spirit" of Soviet dissident movement; his wife Elena Bonner, an ardent supporter of Israel who died on June 18, was "the energy and the warmth."Digging for Jerusalem’s Jewish Roots
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The unveiling of a new complex of ruins from the period of King Solomon's Temple offers yet another rebuke to deniers of a Jewish presence in the capital city of biblical Israel.