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Mincing WordsTuesday, February 7, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Yiddish expression makhn ash un blote—"to make ashes and mud" or "to make mincemeat" of someone—exemplifies the influence of biblical idiom on Yiddish phraseology.
Toward an Archeology of HellTuesday, February 7, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Remembrance is a contradictory imperative. Respectful preservation of the past, especially the remains of those who have gone before us, stands at odds with the need to understand the same past, especially through means like archeology.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Wary of Turkey's increasing radicalism, Israel and Greek Cyprus are forging a new military alliance to protect their offshore gas fields, and to defend against the growing threat of militant Islam.Building Bridges
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Noam Dvir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Moshe Safdie, the world-renowned Israeli architect, is shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970. The future, it seems, is in China.Creating a Monster
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Jonathan Kirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the weak-chinned, bespectacled, clumsy young man who ambitiously reinvented himself as . . . Heinrich Himmler.
The Dangerous Mr. NelsonMonday, February 6, 2012 by Diana Muir Appelbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Eric Nelson is a danger to academia. You would not think so from his background. He is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has had a proper education, at Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One woman is a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist. The other is a renegade crusader for women's rights. An American journalist explicitly seeks to draw a parallel between the two.Creaming the Competition
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ruling Haagen Dazs ice cream to be non-kosher, the Israeli chief rabbinate misconstrues Moshe Feinstein's position and once again demonstrates its contempt for Diaspora Judaism.Vatican’t
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Giulio Meotti | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's decision to cede some sovereignty over the "Hall of the Last Supper" to the Catholic Church will only embolden the Vatican's campaign to appropriate Jewish Jerusalem.A Separate Peace
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Tamar Rotem | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Gur Hasid, who practices a strict sexual separation, will not walk with his wife on the street. He will not call her by name. To address her, he will knock on the table. Or hum.