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OdysseyFriday, June 15, 2012 by Rafi Weichert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An apropos poem for tomorrow's Bloomsday celebrations. (Hebrew and English)
The Aircraft PlotFriday, June 15, 2012 by Malka Margolin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Forty-two years ago today, on June 15, 1970, a group of Soviet dissidents gathered at Smolny Airport outside Leningrad. They had bought all the seats on a 12-passenger aircraft headed 240 miles northwest to Priozersk, near the Finnish border.
Thursday, 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.The Birth of Monarchy
Thursday, June 14, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
New research on the Qeiyafa Ostracon, the inscription found in Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2008, suggests that it is the first archeological evidence of the coronation of King Saul.Flow of History
Thursday, June 14, 2012 by Harold Brodsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
While the Jordan River was agriculturally useless until the modern day, it has been politically and spiritually significant for millennia. Reform Has Mandate to Change
Thursday, June 14, 2012 by Rick Jacobs | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"Come survive with us" is hardly an inspiring call to Jewish commitment. We can do better.
The Chained WifeThursday, June 14, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Yafa Friedman lives in a modest, two-story townhouse in Brooklyn. This past Sunday, the shades were drawn as a group of 30 protestors marched outside the house chanting, "Yafa Friedman—stop the abuse!"
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: 00:10:52
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.