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From New Year to Arbor DayWednesday, February 8, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The holiday of Tu Bishvat ("the fifteenth of Shvat") falls this year on Wednesday, February 8. What are its origins, and when and why did it become incorporated into the calendar as the Jewish "Arbor Day"?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 by Thomas H. Maugh II | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A 3,000-year-old apiary sheds light on the economy of the biblical period.Man is the Tree of the Field
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 by Natan Zach | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Contemplating Deuteronomy 20:19, a contemporary Israeli poet seeks a grim comfort in the arboreal bond.Extending an Olive Branch
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Benny Morris | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Wary of Turkey's increasing radicalism, Israel and Greek Cyprus are forging a new military alliance to protect their offshore gas fields, and to defend against the growing threat of militant Islam.Building Bridges
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Noam Dvir | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Moshe Safdie, the world-renowned Israeli architect, is shutting down the office he opened in Jerusalem in 1970. The future, it seems, is in China.Nazi Family Values
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by David Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The photo albums of Hitler's associates—the extended Nazi family, as it were—were of little or no interest to researchers immediately after World War II. But historians are taking a second look.Whitewashing Black-Jewish History
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Sivan Zakai | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Both African-Americans and Jews journeyed from slavery to redemption, ultimately united as allies in the civil rights era. It makes for an appropriate and inspiring school lesson. But is it good history?Mincing Words
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The Yiddish expression makhn ash un blote—"to make ashes and mud" or "to make mincemeat" of someone—exemplifies the influence of biblical idiom on Yiddish phraseology.
Toward an Archeology of HellTuesday, February 7, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Remembrance is a contradictory imperative. Respectful preservation of the past, especially the remains of those who have gone before us, stands at odds with the need to understand the same past, especially through means like archeology.
Monday, February 6, 2012 by Andrew Roberts | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
One woman is a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist. The other is a renegade crusader for women's rights. An American journalist explicitly seeks to draw a parallel between the two.