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Anti-Semitism without JewsFriday, 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 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.
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?
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!"
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.
