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Daybreak: IDF Medics Receive Chemical Antidote

Plus students break the dreidel world record, which apparently exists

by
Adam Chandler
December 11, 2012
The Great Dreidel Spin at Binghampton(Star Gazette)
The Great Dreidel Spin at Binghampton(Star Gazette)

• 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]

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.