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On the Heritage TrailTuesday, March 2, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Unlike Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not have to take a stroll on the Temple Mount to provoke Palestinian Arab leaders into threatening mayhem. Instead, Netanyahu simply announced a comprehensive plan to strengthen Israel's national heritage by rehabilitating and preserving archaeological and historic sites, developing historic trails, and conserving photographs, films, books, and music of archival value. "A people," he declared, "must know its past in order to ensure its future." Unveiled on February 2, the plan was greeted with a yawn by the mainstream Israeli media, mixed with a few deprecating remarks about Jewish chauvinism, and was largely ignored by Palestinians....
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Thanassis Cambanis | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Gaza's top university has a goal even more radical than that of Hamas: to Islamize society at every level, everywhere.The High Cost of American Jewish Living
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Jack Wertheimer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The economic recession has exacerbated an ongoing and multifaceted crisis.Glittering Mugabe
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Ron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Israel chairs a UN-sanctioned program aimed at preventing trade in Zimbabwean diamonds mined with forced labor; its members include countries with which Israel has no diplomatic relations.In Djerba: Safe, for Now
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Bataween | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Under Ben Ali's firm rule, Jews feel secure on a picturesque Tunisian island hit by a devastating 2002 al-Qaeda attack; but for how long?
IranIran's nuclear program marches on: an existential threat to Israel—target of Tehran's declared genocidal intent—and an immense strategic challenge to the United States and the West as well as to Muslims, Arabs, and others with a stake in geopolitical stability. The Iranian regime has made no bones about seeing this moment as an historical hinge, marked by the rout of American influence and the rise of Tehran as the region's dominant power. As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed last week at his meeting in Damascus with the complaisant Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah, and Khaled Mashal, the Americans "have reached a dead end. They once...
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Mir Yarfitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On Jews and the white slave trade in old Buenos Aires.A Different Israel: The Movie
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Steven Zeitchik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Ajami isn't the only recent film to take a welcome turn away from political posturing.Old-New Debate
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The ghost of Ahad Ha-Am continues to haunt public discourse in a country whose existence was made possible by his nemesis, Theodor Herzl.Far from Enough
Friday, February 26, 2010 by Israel Harel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the work of self-examination, religious Zionists must go beyond issues of sexual abuse.
