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Disagreeing with DaganMonday, March 12, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The public warnings by Meir Dagan against a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran have captured the headlines, but closer analysis shows that he agrees with Netanyahu more than he cares to admit.Détente in Dresden
Monday, March 12, 2012 by Raphael Mostel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Although Dresden, leveled by Allied bombing, remains a rallying point for neo-Nazis, its citizens have created a culture which mourns its wartime destruction without eulogizing the Third Reich.Architecture and Apologetics
Monday, March 12, 2012 by Ann Marlowe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the world has been transfixed by popular uprisings in the Middle East, a new exhibition of architecture from the region glorifies the fascist monuments of authoritarian dictatorships.
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."
Monday, March 12, 2012 by Nadine Epstein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From the Baal Shem Tov to the Imperial Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia, many have claimed descent from King David. And according to Davidic genealogists, all of them are right.
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)
