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Jewish-Christian Dialogue TodayMonday, February 21, 2011 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How do today's Jews and Christians encounter one another? The most obvious way is in the countless interactions of Jewish and Christian colleagues and acquaintances in a host of daily settings, including exchanges on their respective religious attitudes and experiences.
Monday, February 21, 2011 by Rick Richman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In preceding its veto of an anti-Israel Security Council resolution with an anti-Israel presidential statement, and following it with an anti-Israel ambassadorial statement, Washington scored a peace-process trifecta.Teaching Auschwitz
Monday, February 21, 2011 by Michael Kimmelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As living memories fade, and as the mass-extermination camp sees more visitors than ever, officials insist that it needs an update.Stairway to Heaven
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Eleven millennia after it was built, archeologists are revealing new facts about a 28-foot-high stone tower at Tel Jericho, the world's first "skyscraper" and humanity's first public building.Our Man in Cairo
Monday, February 21, 2011 by Abraham Rabinovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Among the blunders that caused Israel to be unprepared for the Yom Kippur war, none may have been greater than its failure to credit the warnings offered by its mystery man inside Egypt.Why Do Evangelicals Love the Jews?
Monday, February 21, 2011 by Joe Carter | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The common thread is not Christian beliefs rooted in the New Testament book of Revelation but a perspective formed by the shared books of the Hebrew Bible.Reason Not the Need
Monday, February 21, 2011 by Robert Golbert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Heavy taxes paid to the state, presumably of benefit to all, do not preempt the Jewish obligation of tz'dakah.A Down to Earth Philosophy
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Allan Nadler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is there a coherent ideology of Jewish secularism? Perhaps, but it's not the one that the scholar David Biale sees in the work of figures from Maimonides to Tony Kushner.The Jewish Wars
Friday, February 18, 2011 by Rivkah Fishman-Duker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In his 1996 book, now reissued in a second edition, Edward Alexander exposes and confronts the double standard regarding Israel and Judaism with uncommon incisiveness.
Thankless in Turtle BayFriday, February 18, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
After more than six months of internal squabbling, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beitenu) have, at last, agreed to dispatch the seasoned diplomat Ron Prosor as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. But what, realistically, can any Israeli ambassador hope to achieve at the UN?

