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Sundown: Israel’s Looming Energy Crisis?
Plus Nazi-exploitation producer Friedman dies, and more
• 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?
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
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.
