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Daybreak: Bibi, Lieberman Visit Hip Countries to Just, Like, Chill
Plus Rahm in crosshairs, Turkish PM doesn’t like Jews, and more in the news
• Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia are receiving senior Israeli officials this week (Prime Minister Netanyahu is in Poland). Though the trips coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, they are really about strenghtening already-warm diplomatic ties. [JPost]
• Israel is likely to convene a panel of senior jurists to rigorously investigate its conduct during last January’s Gaza conflict. [Haaretz]
• Chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel is emerging as the left’s pre-eminent fall guy, the one blamed for President Obama’s political misfortunes and decision to move toward the center. [WSJ]
• An Israeli Foreign Ministry report alleged that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “indirectly incites and encourages anti-Semitism” by associating Jews with his critical stance toward Israel as well as making stereotypical generalizations. [Haaretz]
• Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s chances of landing a second five-year term, which seemed bleak only last week, now look strong. [WP]
Sundown: Harold Ford’s ‘Schmear Campaign’
Plus the IDF to leave Haiti while Israel adopts orphans, and more
Ben-Gurion
The Dispossessed
Hugo Chávez is ramping up his assault on Venezuela’s upper class, and now a rare Jewish paradise is squarely in his sights. Can it be salvaged?
Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
