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Aelia CapitolinaThursday, February 23, 2012 by Nir Hasson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Roman city built on the ruins of Second Temple Jerusalem was considered insignificant archeologically, and accursed religiously. But new excavations are uncovering its dramatic influence on modern Jerusalem.Linked Arms
Thursday, February 23, 2012 by Irin Carmon | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The historically strong relationship between Israel and Guatemala is paying dividends in international diplomacy, yet ordinary Guatemalans have not forgiven Israel for her cooperation with Ríos Montt's junta thirty years ago.
Evil GeniusThursday, February 23, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Very little anti-Semitic literature is new; most of its tropes seem ageless, continually recombined and updated by haters reacting only dimly to their actual circumstances. Few anti-Semitic works exhibit literary or lesser, sociological gifts. The one exception is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 by Mitch Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Avraham Stern was reviled by Jews in Mandate Palestine, appalled at his proposed deal with the Nazis. But seventy years after he was killed by British soldiers, young Israelis are coming to revere him.T’rumah: Furnishing God’s House
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Suppose you had super powers. Suppose you could appear anywhere on earth instantaneously. Suppose you could paralyze the leader of the world's most powerful nation so that he was helpless to act while you launched disaster after disaster against his country and its people. Suppose you could take 600,000 enslaved men—not to mention women and children—out of that leader's nation, and rescue them from slavery in a single day.
Do Jews Have a Mormon Problem?Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The religious values of presidents seldom satisfactorily explain their attitudes toward the Jews. Franklin Roosevelt's Episcopalian faith could not have foretold his hard-hearted policies during the Holocaust. Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter, both Baptists, went in opposite directions.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Jonathan Spyer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Smuggled into Syria, a reporter finds that the Free Syrian Army lacks leadership but is fiercely united against Bashar al-Assad and Iran.Pareve or Starve
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by David Errico-Nagar | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While his predecessors praised vegetarianism as an ideal but not as a practice, Joseph B. Soloveitchik was fully in favor of Jews abstaining from meat.So You Want to Be Jerusalem Bureau Chief
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Ron Kampeas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
How—and how not—to tackle the most delicate assignment in journalism.Elite Philanthropy in Israel
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Two scholars see a distinctive pattern emerging among elite Israeli philanthropists. For starters, they're not particularly religious.
