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Sundown: Cheap Popcorn? What a Bargain!

Plus Fake Philip Roth, Googling Jews, and more

by
Marc Tracy
April 02, 2010

Tablet Magazine, including The Scroll, will be dark for Monday and Tuesday in honor of the yontiffs. Til Wednesday, have a good weekend and a happy rest-of-Passover.

• A Likud Knesset member plans to submit a bill that would set a ceiling for concessions prices at Israeli theaters. What, we should have to pay a week’s salary for a large Coke? [Guardian/Vos Iz Neias?]

• Philip Roth told an Italian journalist that he is disappointed in President Obama. Except he didn’t. Which means the journalist completely made it up. [The New Yorker]

• An awesome look at Israel’s new Holon Design Museum, which is, in an ironic twist, itself really well designed. [NYT Style Magazine]

• A panel of experts talks to Charlie Rose about the Dubai assassination of Hamas weapons man Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. [Charlie Rose]

• If you’ve ever tried to Google someone famous, then you may already know the joke. If not, you’ll want to see this. [Gawker]

• Jewish fantasy baseball. Naturally, the Brewers’ Ryan Braun goes first in the draft. This video is a bit raunchy, but also quite funny. Have a great Opening Day!

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.