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Catholics, Jews, and Jewish Catholics Catholics, Jews, and Jewish Catholics
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Daniel Johnson | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Jews and Catholics in the English-speaking world have so much in common that they ought to make common cause more often than they actually do. The friction between them that sometimes catches fire is, as often as not, based on mutual ignorance and mistrust.
Memories of the Machalniks
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Andrew Esensten | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Praised by Ben-Gurion as the Diaspora's most important contribution to the nascent state, the overseas volunteers in the War of Independence finally have an exhibit in their honor.
The Idealist and the Pragmatist
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Daniel Bouskila | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Two of Israel's Sephardic chief rabbis, Benzion Meir Hai Uziel and Ovadia Yosef, had strikingly different views about how Sephardic traditions were to meet Ashkenazic ones in Israel.
Can a Small Country Have a Big Heart?
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Shmuel Rosner | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Searches and arrests, erecting of border fences, bolstering of guard units, kicking out poor migrants—all these scenes will now become a chapter in Jewish history. Israel has no other choice.
Johnny Cash’s Christian Zionism
Monday, June 18, 2012 by David Brinn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

June Carter Cash "had a dream in which Johnny was preaching to the multitudes at the Sea of Galilee, and she was intent on seeing him do it for real."
The More Deceived
Monday, June 18, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Palestinian rhetoric is not merely based on lies; it does not consider truth to be a value. And Western critical filters are more eroded than ever.
Mayim Mayim
Friday, June 15, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Fact sheet on water in the West Bank: accessibility, contamination, sustainability, and how the joint resource is being managed between Israelis and Palestinians. (PDF)
S/Z
Friday, June 15, 2012 by Benjamin Ivry | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Was Stefan Zweig's habit of sending each of his new books to Sigmund Freud an amicable gesture or an invitation to diagnose and cure?
Anti-Semitism without Jews
Friday, June 15, 2012 by Ben Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A prominent challenger to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez isn't Jewish, but his roots are—reason enough for the regime to launch a smear campaign.
Our Maronite Minority
Friday, June 15, 2012 by Eli Balshan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Inspired in part by Eliezer Ben Yehuda, two Maronite brothers have taken it upon themselves to revitalize their ancestral Aramaic into a modern, living language.