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Building Jerusalem Building Jerusalem
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Hadassah Levy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On the edge of Route 1 as that thoroughfare runs through eastern Jerusalem lies an Arab neighborhood by the name of Sheikh Jarrah. In one section of the neighborhood, an Israeli flag waves and Jews walk back and forth to the tomb of Simon the Just, who served as high priest in the Second Temple.
Egypt’s Israel Obsession
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Egyptians hate Israel for their own reasons, which have nothing to do with the Palestinian cause.
Why I Love “Why we Pray”
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Matthue Roth | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Choosing just six prayers and treating them in depth, Rabbi Barry Freundel has written today's best-conceived and most fully-realized guide to the Jewish liturgy.  
Fighting Campus anti-Semitism
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Manfred Gerstenfeld | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Academics have led the international delegitimization campaign against Israel; with the help of the law, academics and others are leading the fight against it.  
Bible Translations: From Bad to Worse
Friday, September 16, 2011 by Joel Hoffman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In twenty minutes, learn why every English translation of the Bible is unfaithful to the text. (Video)  
Losing the Jewish Vote?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Dan Senor | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Insofar as President Obama has a problem with Jewish voters, it is a problem not of "messaging" but of substance.
Does the West Still Believe in Itself?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Jonathan Sacks | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Shared moral codes—covenants—create renewable energy and have the power to arrest the decline and fall of nations. The challenge of 9/11 is whether the West can re-moralize itself.
Israel’s Isolation Problem Israel’s Isolation Problem
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Aryeh Golan, the morning news anchor for Israeli public radio, summed up the feelings of Israelis on Sunday when he said, "In Turkey the government is against us, in Egypt the mob is against us, and at the UN the majority is against us."
Meet the American Shul
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Emily Katz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Everything you ever wanted to know about the history, the mores, and the character of "the most significant institution in the life of [American] Jews."
Precious Objects
Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Jenna Weissman Joselit | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A book on the diamond trade is heavier on the functional (how things work) than on the personal (what it means to grow up, as the author did, with a father and grandfather in the business).