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Mayim MayimFriday, 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)
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 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!"
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.