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Liberty and Espionage
Friday, June 8, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The indicted Haaretz reporter Uri Blau is no martyr.  There is plenty of scope for journalists to ply their trade without putting themselves above the law and endangering the entire populace.     
Between Tradition and Modernity
Friday, June 8, 2012 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The same week in which the Conservative movement issued guidelines for performing same-sex marriages, it ruled against the use of computers, cell phones, and e-readers on Shabbat.
Jewish is the New Black
Friday, June 8, 2012 by Peter Wood | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Identity group labels seldom work as their proponents hope—and at CUNY, some faculty members see a new taxonomy as rife with the potential to become a tool of exclusion.
Dr. Seuss’s War
Friday, June 8, 2012 by Andres Jauregui | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

While best known for works like The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss "was haunted by the war in Europe," and was a prolific political cartoonist during the 1940s.  Here, a gallery.      
Accounting for Abbas
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Jonathan Schanzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

If Mahmoud Abbas has struggled to match Yasser Arafat as a popular leader, he has proven to be at least as adept as his predecessor in embezzling funds.
The Six-Day War: Day Three The Six-Day War: Day Three
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

As Nasser was ordering his army to flee the Sinai, King Hussein commanded his to stay put. But within the Old City, only a hundred soldiers remained, the rest having already retreated toward the East Bank.
Whose Victory?
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Ed Rettig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

As non-Orthodox movements celebrate the ruling allowing their rabbis to receive public money in Israel, they should remember that with government funding comes government control.
India’s Jewish General
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Aimee Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Asked to name a great Jewish warrior, few Jews would point to Jack Jacob. But in his native India, the Jewish general who won the Indo-Pakistan War is a hero.
The Yeridah Myth
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Pini Herman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The received wisdom has long been that Israel has a problem with emigration. Yet the data shows not only that comparatively few Israelis leave, but also that most come back.
The “Eikhah Problem”
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Why do Jews persist in believing that anti-Semitism is their own fault? (Video)
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