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Sundown: Famous Last Words
Plus no more dough for Abramoff, and more
• What Richard Holbrooke’s last words really were, with context. [Ben Smith]
• Around the country, there is a renewed emphasis on strictly observing Jewish burial practices. [NYT]
• Kissinger’s response to the “gas chambers” remark is something less even than a non-apology apology. The quotations “must be viewed in the context of the time,” he said. [JTA]
• Jack Abramoff’s pizza-making days are over. Which is a shame, because he was apparently good at it! [AP]
• You’re not going to believe this, but, according to statistics, pseudo-Jew Amar’e Stoudemire plays better than average during Hanukkah. [Alone in the Green Room]
• Should Jews own Christmas trees? (#slatepitches.) Contributing editor Mark Oppenheimer debates. [Slate]
Leon Wieseltier remembers] Holbrooke, as does Hendrik Hertzberg. Below: Warren Zevon’s “The Envoy.”
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
