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The Anthropology of AIPACTuesday, May 31, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Few events in contemporary American Jewish life generate as much passion as the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), held in Washington this year on May 22-24. The best way to view the over 10,000 conference participants may be in terms of a tribe or small society.
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Jacob Sugarman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Shomrim (Watchmen) societies of Brooklyn patrol the streets of hasidic neighborhoods, protecting residents and functioning as intermediaries with the New York police department. 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.
Remember the FarhudMonday, May 30, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The end of 2,500 years of Jewish life in Iraq began during two days in June 1941. For 30 terrifying hours, mobs of marauding Iraqi Arabs, soldiers and civilians alike, killed 137 Jews and injured thousands more, pillaged scores of homes, and destroyed more than 600 Jewish-owned businesses.
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.A Forgotten Diaspora
Monday, May 30, 2011 by Tobias O. Green | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Little-known Portuguese Jewish outposts in western Africa in the late-16th and early-17th centuries maintained lively trade relations with places as distant as Amsterdam, Morocco, and Brazil.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.