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Christianity in the Middle EastWednesday, June 9, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cyprus on Sunday was marred by events that cast their own, baleful light on the purpose of his mission: to unveil a Vatican position paper on the deteriorating condition of Christianity in the Middle East. Hours before his arrival, one of the document's authors, Bishop Luigi Padovese, the apostolic vicar of Anatolia, was murdered by his "mentally unstable" driver. Padovese had only recently met with Turkish authorities to discuss the problems of that country's tiny Christian minority—and had previously extended Christian forgiveness to a Muslim youth who in 2006 murdered a Catholic priest. Three more...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Bernard-Henri Lévy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The maelstrom of hatred and madness about Israel is a triumph of disinformation, hypocrisy, and bad faith on the part of, among others, my fellow European leftists.Land of Milk and Honey
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Thomas H. Maugh II | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 3,000-year-old apiary throws new light on the economy of the biblical period.
A Zionist Citadel?Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The annual meeting of the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem takes place this week in Israel's capital. Not unlike the state that it preceded into existence, the university, opened 85 years ago on Mount Scopus in northeast Jerusalem, is in the throes of crisis.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Statements by Islamist participants in the Gaza flotilla.An Intractable Conflict
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 by Alex Grobman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the platform of Hamas insists, the fundamental objective of Islamism is the defeat and destruction not only of Israel but of "whoever supported or supports it."No Patience
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The civilized world would rather work with Hamas than help free the Palestinians from its crushing grip.Who Should Apologize to Whom?
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Victor Davis Hanson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It should be Turkey—and not just in the matter of the Gaza flotilla, and not just to Israel.The New Middle East
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Josef Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Next to Iran, Turkey, a member of NATO, is the West's biggest headache.Poles, Jews, and Nazis
Monday, June 7, 2010 by Timothy Snyder | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In telling a twisted, terrible history, where to strike the balance?