Sundown: A More Spacious Museum
Plus Turkey’s new sailing coach, and more in the news
July 21, 2010
• The revamped Israel Museum in Jerusalem, opening Monday, has “far fewer objects on display, with twice the space to view them.” [NYT]
• Two Gazans were killed in Israeli shelling. [JTA]
• Rodger Kamenetz, author of Nextbook Press’s forthcoming Burnt Books, explores the current dispute over Kafka’s papers. [HuffPo]
• A Hasidic man who owns a Boro Park record store has meticulously restored the old recordings of the long-dead cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, a.k.a. “the Jewish Caruso.” [NYT]
• In the place of Journolist, the recently defunct left-leaning private listserv, is a new group called Cabalist. [Jeffrey Goldberg]
• Headline of the day: “Israeli Coaches Turkish National Sailing Team.” [Ynet]
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Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
