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Sundown: Here Comes the Ambassador

Plus Gaddafi the Jew, Reconstructionism goes mainstream, and more

By Marc Tracy|February 22, 2011 5:00 PM|3comments
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Muammar Gaddafi last year.(Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)

• Dan Shapiro, a top administration national security aide, will be nominated to be the United States’s next ambassador to Israel. [Laura Rozen]

• Gaddafi is unwilling to go. Time to recall that one of his sons is actually all Western-y. [WP]

• Oh, and Gaddafi is technically Jewish. Wait, what? [Israel Today]

• French-Israeli law professor sues for criminal libel for a slightly negative book review. One defendant, NYU Professor Joseph Weiler, is a pretty fascinating guy. [NYT]

• The two main bodies governing Reconstructionist Judaism in America will merge. Sell-outs. [JTA]

• This piece goes on and on about how unutterably different Reps. Anthony Weiner and Jason Chaffetz are from each other, without mentioning a certain crucial similarity! [NYT]

(Summer tour!)

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  • RZS

    Jason Chaffetz converted to Mormonism, apparently, so they no longer have that “crucial similarity.”

  • fw

    Let’s please not credit claims of Jewish origin for every misbegotten sleazeball presidente, in the Middle East or elsewhere. It’s just birtherism, antisemite style.

  • David

    Weiler is even more interesting than you know – among other things, he’s a Modern Orthodox Jewish defender of Christianity in the public square (based on his view of religious freedom) and an advocate for Jewish-Christian rapprochement. Check out this bio and interview in the National Catholic Reporter: http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/tackling-taboos-jews-and-christians-cross-and-deicide

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Sundown: Here Comes the Ambassador

Plus Gaddafi the Jew, Reconstructionism goes mainstream, and more