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Jewish Democrats and Obama
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the 2012 election, a 20-percent swing away from the President in the Jewish vote could make a big difference in key states like Pennsylvania and Florida.
Fallout from YIISA
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Ron Rosenbaum | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Thanks in part to complicity by Jewish faculty in Yale's shameful decision, the frank discussion of anti-Semitism is becoming verboten on American campuses. See also: Why are Liberals Silent?
Behind the Flotilla
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Ehud Rosen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In front are the do-gooders; behind the scenes is a "red-green" alliance of far-Left, anti-Israel Westerners and radical Islamists who know exactly what they're doing.
Excusing the Inexcusable
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

German foundations tainted by associations with the Holocaust have in turn tainted with their money the work of reputable European historians.
Minority Report
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Lee Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Were it not for Israel, the Jews of the Middle East would be as fearful, vulnerable and oppressed by the Sunni majority as every other religious minority in the region.
Sitting Shiva for a Word
Friday, July 1, 2011 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Only non-Jews could have redefined the quintessentially Yiddish "shtick" to mean what Vice-President Biden had in mind in invoking it.
The Coming Storm
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Tal Becker | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It will take energy and luck to deal with the Palestinian initiative at the UN in September; it will take more to manage the situation afterward. (PDF)
God’s Army?
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Arieh O'Sullivan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Ever since religious Jews began filling leadership positions in the IDF, some have been worrying about potential disloyalty to the state—so far, without reason.
Now Playing at a University Near You
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Robert Wistrich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The controversy over a cancelled research program at Yale raises the question of why the academic study of anti-Semitism has come so late to the U.S.
Morning After
Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Out of the limelight, post-overthrow Tunisia has made substantive progress toward democratization; but the end is still not in sight.