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Go to Ammon and MoabMonday, February 25, 2013 by Daniel Gordis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Imagining themselves to be the wise men consulted on Vashti’s fate, the Rabbis deferred to the Jews’ enemies, saying, “from the day when we were exiled from our land, wisdom has been taken from us."
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Walter Russell Mead | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Obama now holds more cards than any American President in a long time: between the nightmare in Syria and the threat in Iran, Israel has never needed support from allies more than it does now." Are Christians the New Jews?
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Yitzchok Adlerstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With Islamist attacks on Christians commonplace from Nigeria to Pakistan, Christians have replaced Jews as numerically the most persecuted people in the world.Hitler’s Philosophers
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Richard J. Evans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The idea that German philosophers were to blame for the rise of Nazism has long been discredited. A new attempt to revive the theory fails to convince.Building Herod’s Temple
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Leen Ritmeyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At both the southwest and southeast corners of the Temple Mount, stones weighing over 80 tons are still in place 100 feet above the foundations. How did they get there?The Ambassador’s Wife
Monday, February 25, 2013 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Scholars of Middle East politics and students of psychedelic-rock have for years asked the same vexing question: How many degrees of separation exist between Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerry Garcia?"
Purim in a New York TaxiFriday, February 22, 2013 by Viva Hammer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In reading the megillah together, my brother and I share a special bond of experience, family history played out against the rich backdrop of our people’s history.
Friday, February 22, 2013 by Adin Steinsaltz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The story of Megillat Esther, says Steinsaltz, "looks like a simplistic melodrama" but "takes on a serious meaning as the mirror of Jewish history."