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Jerusalem: The Scandal of ParticularityWednesday, May 12, 2010 by Norman Podhoretz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Reflections on a city that is not only the capital of present-day Israel but the capital, as it were, of Judaism and the Jewish people.Ancient Jerusalem to Scale
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Miriam Simon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A stunning model of the city during the Second Temple period is on permanent outdoor exhibit at the Israel Museum.Jerusalem as She Was
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Eliyahu Porush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Vivid personal recollections of daily life in the city's Jewish community during the early 1900's. (With photos.)Watering Jerusalem
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by Tom Powers | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Does a medieval aqueduct, newly exposed in an archaological dig, lie over the route of the ancient aqueduct first built in the Hasmonean period? (With photos.)
Shalom JapanWednesday, May 12, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is in Tokyo this week for meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. Lieberman is seeking more robust Japanese pressure on Iran to halt its quest for nuclear weapons. His arrival follows a visit only last month by deputy premier Dan Meridor, who is responsible for intelligence matters. Lieberman's other main goal will be strengthening the economic ties between Israel and Japan, which have blossomed since the 1993 Oslo Accords and the weakening of the Arab boycott. At $3.4 billion worth of business annually, Japan is second only to China as...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Daniel Pipes | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A recent poll shows a small minority of Arabs who already accept Israel as a Jewish state; expanding this base would go a long way toward resolving the conflict and moving on to the region's real problems.Economic Vindication
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel's admission to the OECD affirms the country's extraordinary strides despite unrelenting security threats, diplomatic onslaughts, and the task of absorbing waves of immigrants.
Into the Muck; or, Trials of the DiasporaTuesday, May 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
A London-based lawyer with the firm of Mishcon de Reya, Anthony Julius has the unusual distinction of being a solicitor-advocate—that is, a solicitor who can also appear in court. He was on the defense team in the suit filed against the historian Deborah Lipstadt by the Holocaut denier David Irving; he has participated in litigating many cases bearing on the interests of Israel; and he represented Princess Diana in the last years of her life. A first-rate scholar, he is also the author of T. S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995), Idolizing Pictures: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Jewish Art (2001),...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Some of its stories are of Jewish origin; King Solomon plays a role in others.Secret Agent of al-Qaeda?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Scott Shane and Souad Mekhennet | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An American-born imam who preached peace before 9/11 has been exposed as a principal preacher of jihadist violence to English-speaking Muslims.
