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Sundown: Israel’s Looming Energy Crisis?

Plus Nazi-exploitation producer Friedman dies, and more

by
Marc Tracy
February 15, 2011
From the Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S. poster.(IMDB)
From the Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S. poster.(IMDB)

• A fascinating look at Israel’s energy situation in the wake of the Sinai pipeline explosion earlier this month. [National Geographic]

• Dani Rodrik on how Turkey’s liberal intelligentsia fellow-travels with Prime Minister Erdogan’s Islamist AKP. [National Interest]

• Vivian Gornick on David Grossman’s To the End of the Land. [Boston Review]

• What Tom Friedman gets wrong about Israel’s stance toward the Egyptian Revolution. [Six Kids and a Full Time Job]

• Shocking—shocking!—to find that the producer of Nazi-fetish porn horror movies like Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S. was named David Friedman (although I can’t find confirmation he was Jewish). He died yesterday at 87. [NYT]

• Jewish bandage saves democracy! [JTA]

Pay-Per-Jew Passover Services? Jennifer Grey? Chris Eigeman? Was the late-’90s ABC sitcom It’s Like, You Know … as good as this trailer makes it seem it must have been?

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.