Sundown: U.S. Tsk-Tsks East J’lem Building
October 15, 2010
There were limited clashes in East Jerusalem today.(Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
• The United States has formally expressed disappointment at Israeli approval for new building in Jerusalem, on the grounds that it “hinders the efforts to resume” direct talks. [Laura Rozen]
• Nextbook Press author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein raves over Nicole Krauss’s new novel Great House. [NYT Book Review]
• Another Nextbook Press author (and Tablet Magazine contributor) Ilan Stavans thinks you should go see Nora’s Will, a new film centering around a Mexican Jewish Seder. [Forward]
• Another Tablet Magazine contributor, Michelle Goldberg, upbraids the Anti-Defamation League for unfairly painting legitimate critics of Israel with the anti-Israel brush. [The Daily Beast]
• Famed and pioneering Columbia Law School Professor Louis Henkin died at 92. [CLS]
• Great pitcher Rube Marquard was not a Jew. But he was buried in a Jewish cemetery with his Jewish wife. [Kaplan’s Korner] Which is my way of reminding you to watch the Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay take on the San Francisco Giants’ Tim Lincecum tomorrow night in the National League Championship Series.
Sheila Broflovski, the most ostentatiously Jewish character on South Park, has a confession to make: She’s from New Jersey.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
