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Syria and Iran: Next StepsFriday, June 24, 2011 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
To hasten Assad's demise, much can be done by Washington without resort to military force; thwarting Tehran's nuclear ambitions requires restoring the credibility of the U.S. military option.Who is the Wicked Child?
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Responding to an essay by a Village Voice editor on the loss of her Zionist "innocence."On Torah and Judaism
Friday, June 24, 2011 by James L. Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Interviewed in Moscow, the eminent scholar talks about his life, his career, and the tension between what he does as a student of the Bible and how he lives as a Jew. (Video)Israel’s Pompeii
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under the Ottoman-era alleyways of Akko (Acre), a sleepy port city whose history dates back 4,500 years, archaeologists are uncovering an intact Crusader city.
Following the Strong HorseFriday, June 24, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A Druse physician from the Golan Heights, who works at an Israeli hospital, was one of 24 members of his community arrested for pummeling IDF troops with rocks during so-called Naksa Day protests. Just where do Druse loyalties lie?
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The unveiling of a new complex of ruins from the period of King Solomon's Temple offers yet another rebuke to deniers of a Jewish presence in the capital city of biblical Israel.Against the Current
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Chaim Steinmetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Circumcision is incompatible with advanced 21st-century values; so, to its credit, is much of Judaism.
The Osirak PrecedentThursday, June 23, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In May 1981, eight Israeli fighter jets were on the runway waiting for the go-ahead to execute the most daring operation ever undertaken by the Israeli air force: flying more than 1,000 miles east over enemy territory to destroy Osirak, Iraq's nuclear reactor.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
U.S. and Israeli policy makers have yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to trade the Golan Heights for a peace deal with Syria is and always was a far-fetched dream.Sharansky on Bonner
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Gal Beckerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Andrei Sakharov was "the spirit" of Soviet dissident movement; his wife Elena Bonner, an ardent supporter of Israel who died on June 18, was "the energy and the warmth."
