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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.Jewish Literacy and Jewish Imagination
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Samuel Lebens | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If they wish to make an impact, progressive Jewish activists and thinkers must learn to speak the language of Judaism.Hitler Slept Here
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Aimee Neistat | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
For six months, an American writer traveled Germany, interviewing locals and exploring the legacy of Nazism. What did he find? A still-extant obsession with Jews.Digging Tiberias
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Matti Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Long beloved of archeologists but overshadowed by more famous sites, the ancient metropolis of Tiberias is finally emerging from underneath soil, rubble, and the remnants of an old garbage dump.Mourning, Melancholia, and Maimonides
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Jon Sommer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Perhaps because a number of medieval Jewish philosophers were also mathematicians and astronomers, their writings on suffering offer commonsensical guidance still useful today.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
When is a text not a text? When it is an object. When a Torah scroll is held up in the air so that congregants can view its columns of words, it is not being read. The words that the congregation chants are indeed found in the scroll, but in two different places.