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Daybreak: Algerian Raid Kills 35 Hostages
Plus some results from the survey of New York’s Jewish population
• As many as 35 hostages have reportedly been killed in a botched raid in Algeria. 15 kidnappers were also said to have been killed when military forces opened fire at a standoff at a gas field. [Reuters]
• A new geographic profile of the New York Jewish population shows that the Orthodox are growing the fastest, Washington Heights is a growing Jewish community, the Lower East Side is shrinking of its Jews, Borough Park in Brooklyn is nearly 80% Jewish and the youngest Jewish residents live in Williamsburg. [UJA]
• More polls: Analysis of polling data shows that the economy was the biggest reason why Jewish voters overwhelmingly supported President Barack Obama in the last election. Specific economic issues like poverty and Medicare were also reported to be factors within the broad economic concern. [JTA]
• The Times reports on the apathy of Arab voters in Israel, which, if mobilized, could form the the second-largest party in Israel. [NYT]
• Dealbook reports on how the high-profile investigation of wrongdoing against hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen has not yielded many results. [NYT]
Sundown: Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu Slipping
Plus Germany debates anti-Semitism and its relationship with Israel
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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