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Blinded by IsraelFriday, February 4, 2011 by Alan M. Dershowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Preoccupied with condemning the Jewish state, the United Nations and international "progressives" have encouraged the perpetuation of Arab despotism.
Who is Uri Avnery, and Why Does He Matter?Friday, February 4, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Jerusalem's decision in the early 1990's to admit Yasir Arafat and his fellow thugs into the heart of the land of Israel proved to be one of the country's major political blunders, paid for in the coin of a five-year terror war that traumatized Israeli society and transformed the dream of Israeli-Palestinian peace into an extended nightmare. How did it happen?
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Carol Vogel and Clifford J. Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why is the art world in thrall to a legal dispute over a Russian-held collection of religious books and documents?City of God
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Bruce Anderson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A "biography" of Jerusalem brings the physical city alive while highlighting the competing claims and idiosyncratic personal behavior it has historically inspired.KDate
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Shira Hirschman Weiss | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Traditionally prohibited from marrying converts or divorcees, some modern descendants of the ancient Jewish priesthood find themselves stuck in dating purgatory.What was Found at Hirbet Madras?
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Initially identified as a synagogue, an archaeological site in the Judean hills has turned out to be a 1,500-year-old church with an unusually well-preserved mosaic floor.Israelites, not Jews
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Yardena Schwartz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Torah, kashrut, Sabbath, Hebrew: these and more are marks of a black congregation that nevertheless rejects the idea that its members are Jews.T’rumah: Wood in the Wilderness
Friday, February 4, 2011 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
By Moshe Sokolow This week's portion summons the Israelites to make free-will offerings (t'rumah) to the tabernacle (mishkan) being built in the desert. Rather than donating money, however, they are called upon to contribute goods that will be used in the construction of the edifice, in its furnishings, and in the manufacture of priestly vestments. Of the dozen or so specific materials requisitioned, one is outstanding in the perplexity it would induce in medieval commentators: acacia trees.Transmission Tale
Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Fred MacDowell | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In a show of one-upmanship directed at the U.S., Stalin claimed a Russian Jewish polymath—by coincidence, the grandfather of the American musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky—as the inventor of the telegraph.
Calling David Ben-GurionThursday, February 3, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Times like these tend to remind us what a rare thing is great statesmanship. How many leaders are capable of wedding long-term vision with the nuts and bolts of politics and institutions, let alone an understanding of great historical forces with the will to shape them and the wisdom to know the will's limits?