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Follow the MapThursday, February 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The central thoroughfare of Byzantine-era Jerusalem has been exposed, just where an ancient mosaic says it was.Putting Hitler Back on the Shelves
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by David Gordon Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Needed, according to a leading German historian, is a proper, scholarly edition of a book not legally published in Germany since 1945.Roots, Marrano-Style
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Mark Rebacz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A rabbi who was born in Spain as a Christian descendant of secret Jews is returning to teach Judaism to his fellows.The News from Wadi Abu Jamil
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Alexandra Sandels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new hit book in Arabic attempts to resurrect Beirut's lost Jewish past.Standing Alone
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
It is much easier to manufacture claims about Israel's inhumanity than it is to refute them.Longing for the Extinct Jew
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Vered Zayakovsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the art of the Bulgarian-born Moni Ovadia, star of Italian theater, and his audience.
The Heart or the Head?Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In recent decades, "brain death," the cessation of all neurological activity, has increasingly supplanted cardiac-respiratory failure as the most widely accepted medical criterion of death. This definitional shift has helped mitigate the often ruinous toll on families of caring for patients whose hearts can be artificially kept beating in the absence of even the simplest brain function. It has also saved lives, by facilitating the process of preserving and donating organs for transplantation. Fundamental to Judaism is the idea that human beings are created in the divine image. This affirmation of human dignity finds practical expression in the thoroughgoing prohibition on murder...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Ailene Voisin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Sacramento Kings rookie is already celebrated as a hero; now all he has to do is earn it.On the Study of Hate
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by Eric Herschthal | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At Indiana University, a new center joins the handful of academic research institutes focusing on contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.Kosher Road Food, 18th-Century Style
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Throughout Europe, inns provided separate cabinets with pots and pans for travelers observing kashrut.