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Daybreak: Abbas Embattled
Plus A’jad arrives in Lebanon, and more in the news
• The waffling of peace talks have led President Abbas to face a growing rebellion from within his own Fatah party. [WSJ]
• President Ahmadinejad was greeted in Iran by cheering crowds. [WSJ]
• The U.S. State Department responded to yesterday’s peace-talk developments—a proposed and rejected freeze in exchange for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state—with something that I’ll leave you to try to decipher. [Haaretz]
• How olive trees became symbols of the struggle between West Bank Palestinians and settlers. [NYT]
• New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino apologized for his anti-gay remarks in an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn Sunday. [NYT]
• Robert Tishman, a huge New York real estate mogul and philanthropist, died at 94. [NYT]
The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
