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Another Historic FindTuesday, February 23, 2010 by Jonathan Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Providing fresh evidence of the Davidic monarchy, an archaeological dig in Jerusalem further repudiates anti-Zionist and Arab denials of ancient Jewish connections to the city.A Population Bomb
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Brad A. Greenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A New York Times feature on the late Yitta Schwartz mused admiringly on her 2,000 living descendants. It omitted mention of the steadily shrinking numbers of American Jews as a whole.Ambassador to Islam?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Paul Marshall | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The United States is legitimizing the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Why?Why I Observe Two Days of Purim
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Ari Enkin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Because he lives in Beit Shemesh, a town in Israel that in the days of Joshua had a wall around it.Can Iran Be Contained?
Monday, February 22, 2010 by James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Not unless it can be stopped short of becoming a nuclear power, which means not without a credible threat of military action.Why No Jewish Narnia
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Michael Weingrad | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Is it a coincidence that Jews have contributed less to modern fantasy than to any other literary genre?Flirting with Damascus
Monday, February 22, 2010 by David Schenker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Washington's year of "engaging" with Syria has yielded few if any positive results, and is unlikely to produce more.A “White Intifada”
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Shaul Mishal and Doron Mazza | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The shift toward a human-rights agenda in international diplomacy could lead to a new Palestinian strategy, and requires pre-emptive action by Israel.The Coca-Cola Rabbi
Monday, February 22, 2010 by Gail Lichtman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
On the yortsayt of a remarkable figure of Southern Orthodoxy.
Yehuda Halevi
How golden was the Jewish "Golden Age" of Spain: roughly, the 10th–11th centuries C.E.? In the era's once-popular reputation for Muslim-Christian-Jewish tolerance and coexistence (convivencia), it is increasingly easy to see an overused and overstated fiction; more and more, scholarship reveals just how conflicted a time it was, and how conditional was the "tolerance" extended to minority communities. Still, for Jews as for others it truly was a period of amazing cultural creativity and accomplishment, all the more astonishing in light of convivencia's constraints. Under Muslim rule, the most innovative Jewish achievements lay in the realms of poetry and philosophy. Standing at the summit of both,...
Monday, February 22, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
How golden was the Jewish "Golden Age" of Spain: roughly, the 10th–11th centuries C.E.? In the era's once-popular reputation for Muslim-Christian-Jewish tolerance and coexistence (convivencia), it is increasingly easy to see an overused and overstated fiction; more and more, scholarship reveals just how conflicted a time it was, and how conditional was the "tolerance" extended to minority communities. Still, for Jews as for others it truly was a period of amazing cultural creativity and accomplishment, all the more astonishing in light of convivencia's constraints. Under Muslim rule, the most innovative Jewish achievements lay in the realms of poetry and philosophy. Standing at the summit of both,...