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Daybreak: IDF Medics Receive Chemical Antidote
Plus students break the dreidel world record, which apparently exists
• With fears mounting about Syria’s unstable chemical weapons stockpile, according to reports, the IDF will given its medics doses of a chemical weapons antidote. [Times of Israel]
• The head rabbi of the Lithuanian haredi community in Israel says that yeshiva students should not enlist in Israeli national service programs. [JTA]
• Jewish students in Binghamton, New York claim to have broken the Guinness World Records for dreidel spinning. Their parents set the record for most simultaneous utterances of: For this I sent you to college? [JTA]
• In a sign of Israel’s growing popularity in the tech field, Google sets up an innovation campus in Tel Aviv [AP]
• Five hundreds years after the Inquisition, a look at Spain’s initiative to invite Sephardic Jews back. [NYT]
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
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.
