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The Butcher and the SurgeonMonday, March 12, 2012 by Micah D. Halpern | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
They call Bashar al-Assad "son of the butcher," but he is merely a butcher twice removed. The original butcher of Syria was Abul Abbas al-Saffah, the last appellation meaning "shedder of blood."
Old-New LeonardFriday, March 9, 2012 by Peodair Leihy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After 60 years of publishing and recording, seventysomething Leonard Cohen has something else to say; and, lo and behold, the "Camp"—the Bergen-Belsen of the remembered newsreels of his childhood—comes up. He also gets the "Eye"—Jerusalem's Eye of the Needle—in there, a Jewish metaphor from the Talmud and the New Testament.
Friday, March 9, 2012 by Jeff Wheelwright | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The discovery of the world's most studied piece of DNA in the Southwest's Hispano community confirms events of half a millennium before in Spain. Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians
Friday, March 9, 2012 by Michael Oren | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The extinction of the Middle East's Christian communities is an injustice of historic magnitude. Yet Israel provides an example of how this trend can not only be prevented but reversed.Learning from Men
Friday, March 9, 2012 by Judith Hauptman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Were there women's voices in the ancient beit midrash? (PDF) The Harlem Document
Friday, March 9, 2012 by William Meyers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although the Photo League was never a big organization, it was famous for the names associated with it, and infamous for its ties to the Communist party. (Slideshow)In Fayyad’s Hands
Thursday, March 8, 2012 by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Salam Fayyad is both the primary vehicle for a future Palestinian state and its most effective symbol.
Hitting the JackpotThursday, March 8, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Who doesn't like Purim? Besides the costumes and candy, the story itself has all the politics, sex, and violence of a juicy HBO series. In case you missed it: "Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy the Jews, and had cast a pur—that is, a lottery—with intent to crush and exterminate them."
Thursday, March 8, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the Purim story as riotously told by the great Yiddish poet Itzik Manger, God is so absent that His providence appears only by way of the Devil.Hester Panim?
Thursday, March 8, 2012 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jerusalem in the Qur'an is a 142-page text—but Jerusalem is nowhere to be found in the Koran.