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Sundown: Maryland Rules!
Plus Shabbat locks that don’t require enough work, and more
• Maryland’s legislature is forcing a French train company to release its World War Two-era records—ahem, a French train company during World War Two—if it wants its American subsidiary to be able to bid to run two lines of the Maryland Area Regional Commuter, or MARC, train. Maryland is the best state in the union. [JTA]
• A company is being sued for allegedly manufacturing electric, kosher-for-Shabbat locks that can be opened with a magnet. [NYT]
• At the Conservative confab in Las Vegas, Sue Fishkoff finds concern for institutions’ futures. [JTA]
• Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon argues that violent Palestinian anti-Semitism does not find its roots in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. [WSJ]
• Politics & Prose—The Scroll’s favorite bookstore—has been sold, though not to the group that included contributing editor Jeffrey Goldberg. [WP]
• A heartfelt dispatch from the front lines of the New York City high school admissions process. [Gotham Schools]
Waterloo Sunset!
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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.
