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Holocaust Reparations: The Back StoryMonday, August 13, 2012 by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On July 10th, dignitaries from the U.S., German, and Israeli governments attended a curious ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Monday, August 13, 2012 by Michael Curtis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new report on the Palestinian economy shows that growth has been driven by foreign aid and belies a sharp contraction in the private sector that began with the Second Intifada.Proofreading the Bible
Monday, August 13, 2012 by Aron Heller | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Using the Aleppo and Leningrad codices, Menachem Cohen has spent the last 30 years correcting textual errors in the Bible—and believes he has now produced the definitive edition.The Common Currency of the Crusades
Monday, August 13, 2012 by Gwen Ackerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The discovery of gold Egyptian coins, rather than silver European coins, in a Crusader castle shows that sound money can transcend religion, politics, and war. Healthcare for Hamas
Monday, August 13, 2012 by P. David Hornik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Despite Hamas’s implacable resolve to destroy Israel, hospitals in Israel routinely treat casualties from Gaza—including Ismail Haniyeh’s brother-in-law. Israel’s Pork Problem
Monday, August 13, 2012 by Jeffrey Yoskowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Israeli government’s plan to transfer pig farms from the Galilee to the Negev threatens to undermine the 50-year-old accommodation between the state and the country’s Christian Arabs.
The Last Berber JewsFriday, August 10, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
As a child, the French filmmaker Kamal Hachkar learned the Berber language from his grandparents in Tinghir, a Berber oasis city east of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. As an adult he discovered that the now exclusively Muslim town once had a substantial Jewish community.
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Isabel Kershner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With Syria entrenched in civil war, tensions are rising in the Syrian Druse villages on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, as opponents of Assad square up against loyalists.