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Sundown: The End of Small Parties?

Plus effort by Jewish lawyer to ban Jews from jury fails

by
Adam Chandler
March 12, 2013
(Knesset.gov.il)
(Knesset.gov.il)

• According to Channel 2 in Israel, the threshold for parties to join the Knesset may rise from 2% to 4%, which would keep small parties out of the Knesset. [ToI]

• A.O. Scott reviews the new PBS documentary on Philip Roth, which will air later this month as the author turns 80. [NYT]

• A federal judge has (unsurprisingly) turned down a request by a lawyer to exclude Jews from a jury involving a man accused of lying about trying to join the Taliban. [JTA]

• Ben Birnbaum writes something new and interesting about the coming end of the chance for the two-state solution. [TNR]

• Natalie Schachar has got the scoop on a new YouTube channel called JASH, which is specially curated by Sarah Silverman and other comedians. [Jewcy]

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.