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The Idealist and the PragmatistMonday, 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.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.Odyssey
Friday, June 15, 2012 by Rafi Weichert | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
An apropos poem for tomorrow's Bloomsday celebrations. (Hebrew and English)

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.
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.

Thursday, 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!"