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Day Four: “Attack! Attack!”Friday, June 8, 2012 by Allan Arkush | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
On June 1, 1967, when Prime Minister Levi Eshkol yielded to public pressure and turned over the portfolio of defense minister to former IDF chief of staff Moshe Dayan, the mood in Israel changed overnight.
Friday, June 8, 2012 by David Margolick | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As the Israeli populace—disillusioned with grandiose peace plans, increasingly controlled by the Orthodox—has moved right, Netanyahu has been able to stay in one place: His country has come to him.Liberty and Espionage
Friday, June 8, 2012 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The indicted Haaretz reporter Uri Blau is no martyr. There is plenty of scope for journalists to ply their trade without putting themselves above the law and endangering the entire populace. Between Tradition and Modernity
Friday, June 8, 2012 by Ari L. Goldman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The same week in which the Conservative movement issued guidelines for performing same-sex marriages, it ruled against the use of computers, cell phones, and e-readers on Shabbat.Accounting for Abbas
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Jonathan Schanzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
If Mahmoud Abbas has struggled to match Yasser Arafat as a popular leader, he has proven to be at least as adept as his predecessor in embezzling funds.
The Six-Day War: Day ThreeAs Nasser was ordering his army to flee the Sinai, King Hussein commanded his to stay put. But within the Old City, only a hundred soldiers remained, the rest having already retreated toward the East Bank.
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Ed Rettig | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As non-Orthodox movements celebrate the ruling allowing their rabbis to receive public money in Israel, they should remember that with government funding comes government control.India’s Jewish General
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Aimee Ginsburg | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Asked to name a great Jewish warrior, few Jews would point to Jack Jacob. But in his native India, the Jewish general who won the Indo-Pakistan War is a hero.The Yeridah Myth
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Pini Herman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The received wisdom has long been that Israel has a problem with emigration. Yet the data shows not only that comparatively few Israelis leave, but also that most come back.The “Eikhah Problem”
Thursday, June 7, 2012 by Dara Horn | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Why do Jews persist in believing that anti-Semitism is their own fault? (Video)
