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Daybreak: MK Demands Israel Expose U.S. Spies
Plus Israeli Judo, Jewish basketball, and Iran
• Unless jailed-for-life Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is released by America, National Union MK Arieh Eldad will try to force Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to expose the American spy program in Israel. [JPost]
• China condemned Mitt Romney’s statement declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel to be incitement; Iran called Romney’s visit to Israel “foot-kissing.” [Times of Israel]
• The Times chronicles the increasing gulf between Israel and Bulgaria as the investigation of the Burgas bombing slowly drags. [NYT]
• Alice Schlesinger, Israel’s leading Olympic judo athlete, lost after advancing to the quarterfinals and still has a chance at the bronze. [BBC]
• The Forward profiles Flinder Boyd, the Jewish point guard on the Great Britain Olympic basketball team, who hoop dreams came to an end following an injury. [Forward]
Aftermath from the Jonah Lehrer Story
After Tablet report, writer resigns from New Yorker and publisher halts sales of his book, Imagine
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
