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Jerusalem Syndrome
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Michael J. Totten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The world's diplomats have convinced themselves that dividing the city of Jerusalem is the key to peace in the Middle East; they are deluded.
Cairo’s Peace Dividend
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Amir Taheri | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An honest public debate would show that the peace with Israel has been beneficial to Egypt, and in fact an essential first step toward freedom from despotic rule.  
“Frum” Week
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Emily Langowitz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

For seven days, a Yale senior raised in the Reform movement alters her dress, her habits, and her ritual behavior to try out "a different way of connecting to God."
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr. Eliot!
Monday, September 19, 2011 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As his letters to colleagues and friends reveal, the anti-Semitic impulses of the great poet were deep, but varied in intensity and consistency according to circumstances.
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)  
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.
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