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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.
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.
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: 00:10:52We Failed Zuckerberg
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Dana Evan Kaplan | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A Reform rabbi argues that his movement's pluralistic theology is to blame for the detachment of young Jews from their faith.Wagner the Dog
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Jonathan S. Tobin | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
What does it say about Jewish sensibilities that a month after Tel Aviv University hosted a "Nakba Day" commemoration, it judged a concert of Wagner's music to be beyond the pale?
At the Edge of the AbyssTuesday, June 12, 2012 by Elliot Jager | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The striking thesis of a new work is that even before Hitler came to power, the prognosis for European Jewry was bleak: "The demographic trajectory was grim and, with declining fertility, large-scale emigration, increasing outmarriage, and widespread apostasy, foreshadowed extinction."
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Tevi Troy | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"During the Katrina disaster, President Bush declared to his senior staff that there would be no weekend . . . As a Sabbath observer, I wondered what to do."Israelis, Learn Arabic!
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 by Yaron Friedman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Though tiny Israel is surrounded by more than 200 million Arabic speakers, its government has failed to treat Arabic studies with the appropriate seriousness.