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Daybreak: Oh really, Russia?

Plus Sacha Baron Cohen flip flops on Shimon Peres

by
Adam Chandler
July 25, 2012
(Sacha Baron Cohen with Shimon Peres)
(Sacha Baron Cohen with Shimon Peres)

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses the United States of supporting terrorism because it did not denounce last week’s attack on the Assad regime’s inner-circle in Damascus. [JPost]
• Ruth Marcus drops some Torah verse in condemning Israel’s policies toward African immigrants. [WaPo]
• Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors will march in Israel in an effort to show support for African migrants. [JTA]
• Comedian, stealer-of-Isla-Fisher, actor Sacha Baron Cohen met with Israeli President Shimon Peres…in flip flops. [Jewcy]
• A delegation from the Teach for America program will visit Israel to study its approach to education and community service programs. [Times of Israel]

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.