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Daybreak: Vandals Tag Home of Women of the Wall Member

Plus an Israeli commission casts doubt about details of an infamous incident

by
Adam Chandler
May 20, 2013
Mughrabi Quarter, Jerusalem.(Geolocation)
Mughrabi Quarter, Jerusalem.(Geolocation)

• Peggy Cidor, a journalist and member of the Women of the Wall group, found her Jerusalem home had been sprayed with graffiti by vandals. Slogans like “Torah tag,” a reference to price tag attacks, was painted on her door and “Women of the Wall are villains” was found on the wall outside her apartment. [ToI]

• An Israeli commission has concluded that Muhammad al-Dura, a Palestinian boy and icon of the Second Intifada, may not have been struck by bullets at all during a shootout infamously captured by French television in September 2000. [NYT]

• Jay Michaelson writes on the murder of Mark Carson and the persistence of bias crimes despite advances in civil rights. [HuffPo]

• The Forward reports on the unforgotten Mughrabi Quarter in Jerusalem, which was razed by Israeli troops following the Six-Day War. [Forward]

• In case you missed it, Austin Ratner–of the fabled Ratner Pack– gets profiled by the Times. Jewcy follows up on a piece he wrote for the site earlier this year. [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.