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Apathy and Anti-ZionismThursday, June 14, 2012 by Seffi Kogen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
With their relentless scaremongering about anti-Zionism on campus, Jewish educational institutions have raised a generation apathetic not only to activism but to Israel itself.Food for Peace
Thursday, June 14, 2012 by Kenneth M. Quinn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Daniel Hillel's micro-irrigation technology, which turns desert into farmland, has earned him the World Food Prize—and the gratitude of people across the Middle East.
Steal This SiddurWednesday, June 13, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
If anyone might be poised to understand how a project of decentralized authority and radically distributive ownership could operate in a market-based economy, it would be the treasurer of a kibbutz.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
Torah Talk with Michael Carasik Joshua and Caleb, the two "good" spies, tell the people not to be afraid of the Canaanites—with a nice bit of biblical Hebrew slang. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:52We Failed Zuckerberg
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Dana Evan Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Reform rabbi argues that his movement's pluralistic theology is to blame for the detachment of young Jews from their faith.Wagner the Dog
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What does it say about Jewish sensibilities that a month after Tel Aviv University hosted a "Nakba Day" commemoration, it judged a concert of Wagner's music to be beyond the pale?
At the Edge of the AbyssTuesday, June 12, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The striking thesis of a new work is that even before Hitler came to power, the prognosis for European Jewry was bleak: "The demographic trajectory was grim and, with declining fertility, large-scale emigration, increasing outmarriage, and widespread apostasy, foreshadowed extinction."
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"During the Katrina disaster, President Bush declared to his senior staff that there would be no weekend . . . As a Sabbath observer, I wondered what to do."Israelis, Learn Arabic!
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Yaron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though tiny Israel is surrounded by more than 200 million Arabic speakers, its government has failed to treat Arabic studies with the appropriate seriousness.Fleshpots and Ice Cream Pints
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From olim, one hears an American—or is it an atavistic?—yearning for quality and convenience.