Sundown: Find Out What Your Leaders Are Paid
Plus A’jad-ology, Hitch on Hank, and more
December 13, 2010
Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the highest-paid female Jewish communal leader.(Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)
• The annual list of Jewish communal leaders’ salaries reveals that women get paid more and get more raises than men. Wait, scratch that, reverse it. [Forward]
• Ahmadinejad sacked his foreign minister and replaced him with the head of Iran’s nuclear energy agency, in a sign that the president has successfully consolidated power. [Laura Rozen]
• Bernard Madoff is likely not eligible for a furlough to attend the funeral of his son, who killed himself over the weekend. [AP/Vos Iz Neias?]
• Vox Tablet contributor Hugh Levinson has a podcast about Safed, a northern Israeli town with a fascinating spiritual past. [BBC]
• Hitch on Kissinger. Always a good time. [Slate]
• Classic headline: “Suspected Israeli Neo-Nazi Arrested in Kyrgyzstan.” It’s like I always say, those crazy Kyrgyz! [Haaretz]
Somebody was listening in on that argument you were having with your uncle about Israel (h/t Goldblog).
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
