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Early Sundown: Freeze This!
Plus Jesus and ‘The Simpsons,’ and more
Barring big breaking news, The Scroll will be dark until Thursday morning. Chag Sameach!
• Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Cabinet rejected U.S. calls to cease building in East Jerusalem. [NYT]
• Despite what you’ve always been told, Jesus’s Last Supper was (probably) not a Seder. [Slate]
• Palace intrigue! Reported internal disputation over Israel within the Obama Administration. [Laura Rozen]
• Thomas L. Friedman on the necessity—not preferability—of peace in the Mideast. [NYT]
• Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan advocates against sanctions on Iran. [Haaretz]
• The Simpsons are going to Israel! (Actually, they went, last night; Sacha Baron Cohen voiced the Israeli tour guide.)
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
