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In Search of Herod’s TombTuesday, December 21, 2010 by Ehud Netzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A first-hand report by the late archeologist who uncovered the luxurious desert retreat and burial place of the ruler of ancient Judea.Playing Nice
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 by Katrina Ballard | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An award for good sportsmanship has highlighted the all-embracing educational ethos of an Orthodox day school.Abolish UNRWA
Monday, December 20, 2010 by Michael Bernstam | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The UN agency ostensibly devoted to the welfare of Palestinian refugees is an incubator of revanchism and terrorism; dismantling it is the first step toward creating the conditions for a viable peace process.After the Chief
Monday, December 20, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Jonathan Sacks has announced his retirement; who will succeed him as the UK's chief rabbi?
The DNA SpeaksMonday, December 20, 2010 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Are Jews a "nation" or a "people"? The Hebrew term ‘am means both. Both terms, moreover, have been subjected to disapprobation in our time—although not nearly to the extent of "race," a term that Jews themselves stopped using nearly a century ago. How, then, are we to think about the mounting genetic evidence that points to Jewish biological continuity over time?
Monday, December 20, 2010 by Dalia Karpel | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
John Patrick Cooper was a hard-drinking soldier with a big heart who deserted British forces to fight with the Jews during Israel's War of Independence, and stayed on.The Scholar Who Came to Dinner
Monday, December 20, 2010 by Erica Brown | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Visiting scholars have become a regular feature of American congregational life; is the educational experience worth it, either to them or to the synagogue-goers?Under a Cruel Star
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Tom Gross | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Heda Margolius-Kovaly, resilient survivor of both Nazism and Communism, author of an extraordinary 20th-century memoir, has died at the age of ninety-one.
Secularism and Its DiscontentsFriday, December 17, 2010 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The transformations of Jewish life in the last two-and-a-half centuries still boggle the mind. Deep ruptures opened to separate the present from the past, modernity from tradition, setting terms that have defined the contours of Jewish life until today. How did people try to think their way through the change?
Friday, December 17, 2010 by Armin Rosen and Jordan Hirsch | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The newly launched Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University already shows signs of turning into a platform for an anti-Israel agenda.
