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East JerusalemTuesday, March 16, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
During Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel last week, a routine bureaucratic approval of additional dwellings for ultra-Orthodox Jews was leaked to the media, thereby setting off a crisis in relations between the two countries. The neighborhood in question, Ramat Shlomo, is said to stand in Arab East Jerusalem. But what and where is East Jerusalem? The term is an artificial construct, and a misnomer. Jerusalem is a city built on hills, embedded on a mountain ridge; Samaria lies to the north, Judea to the south. The city has no grid system—no Fifth Avenue to divide the east and west sides....
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 by Aryeh Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jewish progressives are reclaiming the language of tradition; what's in it for tradition?Governing Israel
Monday, March 15, 2010 by David Horovitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What did an ultimate insider see, and what did he learn? An interview with Yehuda Avner.Vile but Not Criminal
Monday, March 15, 2010 by Lorne Gunter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A vicious hater of Jews has not yet crossed the line between speech and incitement to violence.Israel’s Business
Monday, March 15, 2010 by Stefan Karlsson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not yet the Hong Kong of the Middle East, but moving steadily in that direction.Market Watch
Monday, March 15, 2010 by Nehad Zarkawy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Arab consumers, and entrepreneurs, are a growing sector of the Israeli economy.Hands of Clay
Monday, March 15, 2010 by Michael Kaminer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An exhibit in Toronto showcases one of the Jewish state's most vibrant art forms.
The Messianic AliyahMonday, March 15, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Today marks the rededication of the Hurva (literally, "ruin") Synagogue, once the jewel in the crown of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Its history, and the debates over that history, open a window onto a fascinating chapter with powerful reverberations today. In 1700, days after arriving from Poland, a Jewish pietist purchased an abandoned plot known since the 15th century as "the Ashkenazi courtyard," hoping to build a synagogue. When his followers proved unable to keep up their payments, the Arab creditors reduced the site to rubble. In the 19th century it arose again, magnificently, thanks to the...
Friday, March 12, 2010 by Ahmad Saeid | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One and a half billion Muslims, held everywhere at bay by a tiny world community of Jews, can learn a lesson from their enemies.An Ethiopian Haggadah
Friday, March 12, 2010 by Ruth Eglash | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For the seder table: a traditional haggadah incorporating the saga of Ethiopian Jewry.