• Donald Sobol, author of the beloved Encyclopedia Brown children’s mystery novels, has died at 87. [Gothamist]
• The Times explores the difficult task of making a Kosher cocktail. [Times]
• Jewcy tackles Sarah Silverman’s indecent YouTube proposal for Sheldon Adelson. [Jewcy]
• A different kind of J-Date: An Idaho farm creates something called “Weed Dating.” [Yahoo]
• The gourmet brisket craze is wending its way into Bed Stuy. Watch out world. [NYMag]
It’s Pinchas Zuckerman’s birthday. Tell all those Joshua Bell groupies out there that nobody plays Bruch better:
Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.