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Syria and Iran: Next Steps
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Robert Satloff | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

To hasten Assad's demise, much can be done by Washington without resort to military force; thwarting Tehran's nuclear ambitions requires restoring the credibility of the U.S. military option.
Who is the Wicked Child?
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Jeffrey Goldberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Responding to an essay by a Village Voice editor on the loss of her Zionist "innocence."
On Torah and Judaism
Friday, June 24, 2011 by James L. Kugel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Interviewed in Moscow, the eminent scholar talks about his life, his career, and the tension between what he does as a student of the Bible and how he lives as a Jew. (Video)
Israel’s Pompeii
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Under the Ottoman-era alleyways of Akko (Acre), a sleepy port city whose history dates back 4,500 years, archaeologists are uncovering an intact Crusader city.
The Heights
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

U.S. and Israeli policy makers have yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to trade the Golan Heights for a peace deal with Syria is and always was a far-fetched dream.
Sharansky on Bonner
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Gal Beckerman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Andrei Sakharov was "the spirit" of Soviet dissident movement; his wife Elena Bonner, an ardent supporter of Israel who died on June 18, was "the energy and the warmth."
Digging for Jerusalem’s Jewish Roots
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The unveiling of a new complex of ruins from the period of King Solomon's Temple offers yet another rebuke to deniers of a Jewish presence in the capital city of biblical Israel.
Against the Current
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Chaim Steinmetz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Circumcision is incompatible with advanced 21st-century values; so, to its credit, is much of Judaism.
The Osirak Precedent The Osirak Precedent
Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Aryeh Tepper | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

In May 1981, eight Israeli fighter jets were on the runway waiting for the go-ahead to execute the most daring operation ever undertaken by the Israeli air force: flying more than 1,000 miles east over enemy territory to destroy Osirak, Iraq's nuclear reactor.
Korah: The Morning After
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions

It is one of the most famous stories in the book of Numbers, yet we often miss the story behind the story. For it turns out that the rebellion of Korah, which features prominently in this week's reading, is really just a frontispiece for a far more interesting drama playing out in the background.