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From Russia with Love
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While Moscow still supports Syria and Iran in a bid to counter U.S. influence in the Middle East, economic and cultural ties between Russia and Israel have blossomed since the end of the Cold War.
The Wolf Lies Down with Islam
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Barry Rubin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If Obama owes his critical attitude toward Israel to Rabbi Arnold Wolf, his sometime friend in Chicago, why didn’t the president pay any attention to Wolf’s reflections on the Islamic world?
Englishing the Talmud Englishing the Talmud
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

According to a rabbinic tradition recorded in the Talmud (Shabbat 12b), God’s angels do not understand the Aramaic language in which the Talmud itself is mainly composed. As many a modern reader can testify, they’re hardly alone.
Hebrew Comes to Harlem
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Julie Wiener | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The New York school board’s approval of a Hebrew charter school in South Harlem heralds a new educational partnership between Harlem’s diverse black community and Upper West Side Jews.
Morsi the Moderate?
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Eric Trager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Although Egypt’s new president is trusted by the military establishment, the Muslim Brotherhood chose him as their candidate for his uncompromising ideological integrity.
Wrong on Wagner
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Norman Lebrecht | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The decision by Tel Aviv University to ban a private performance of Wagner’s music is a sign of increasing hysteria in Israel - not to mention artistic deafness. 
The Undeserving Poor?
Monday, June 25, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The Forward says that the U.S. should think hard about subsidizing a community that makes poverty a lifestyle.  But is the paper merely selling its non-liberal brethren down the river?
Après Merah, le Déluge
Monday, June 25, 2012 by Guy Millière | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Despite France’s focus on its Jews in the wake of the Toulouse killings, anti-Semitic attacks have only intensified—and the media, the government, and the police are all turning a blind eye.
Simmering Sinai
Monday, June 25, 2012 by Gershom Gorenberg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Clashes at the border coupled with the prospect of a hostile Egyptian government have led to defiant rhetoric in Israel on the Sinai. But for Israel’s security, rhetoric must not translate into military retaliation.
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