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Water of Life
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Yonatan Neril | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Far from the abundant water supplies of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile, Israel’s reliance on rainfall is designed to remind us that all our needs depend on divine providence.
The Forgotten Firebrand
Friday, August 17, 2012 by Sue Vice | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Appalled at the secularism of inter-war Anglo-Jewry, poet Izak Goller bemoaned “the gods of the shops and the warehouses / Hollow papier-mâché imitations of the Golden Calf of our ancestors!”
The Jew of Jobbik
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Pablo Gorondi | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Hungary’s far-Right Jobbik party has ostracized a prominent anti-Semitic political figure after discovering his Jewish roots—and Chabad has taken him in.
Britain’s Other Chief Rabbi
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Gideon Sylvester | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As the spiritual leader of Britain’s Sephardi community, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Levy has championed a tolerant Orthodoxy and brought Anglo-Jewry’s competing factions closer together.
Israel: The Home Video
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Michal Shmulovich | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new film brings together amateur footage spanning 60 years—from Jews sailing to pre-state Palestine to an eight-couple wedding to Menachem Begin making peace with Anwar Sadat.
The New South Africa?
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Ben Levitas | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While the South African government regularly accuses Israel of oppression, it remains on good terms with Mugabe, Omar Bashir, and Assad.
Accounting for Anti-Zionism
Thursday, August 16, 2012 by Efraim Karsh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is often dismissed as “Zionist propaganda.” But the claim challenges one of the fundamental tenets of Zionism.
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 by Reuel Marc Gerecht | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The West may hope that Iran would have enough acumen not to actually use a nuclear bomb, but her Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, hasn’t exhibited much sense yet.
Job the Trotskyist
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

“There is no worse lowlife than a Jewish Chekist, Yevsektsia member, or plain Communist. They spit on the truth. They’re ready to kill and torture over the least suspicion.” (Fiction; Translated by David Stromberg)
Israel’s Oldest Residents
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 by Sharon Udasin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In a cave deep under Ramle, scientists have discovered eight new animal species which have lived there in total isolation from the outside world for millions of years.