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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.
Odyssey
Friday, June 15, 2012 by Rafi Weichert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

An apropos poem for tomorrow's Bloomsday celebrations. (Hebrew and English)      
The Aircraft Plot The Aircraft Plot
Friday, 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.
Apathy and Anti-Zionism
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.