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Sundown: Iron Dome Successfully Intercepts Rocket
Plus another flotilla planned, a Goldstone primer, and more
• The Mavi Marmara ship will be sent back to Gaza next month as part of another flotilla. “Freedom flotilla 2” will include more than 15 vessels. [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket fired from the Gaza strip—a potential strategic game-changer for Israel. The new defense system can locate and shoot at incoming rockets “within seconds of their launch.” [Haaretz]
• Meanwhile, a 16-year-old is in critical condition, suffering head injuries after the school bus he was on was hit by an anti-tank missile from the Gaza Strip. [Jerusalem Post]
• Kazakhstani Jewish billionaire Alexander Mashkevitch announced plans to start a news channel that “would deliver fairer coverage of Israel than that which the international media provides.” So basically Al-Jewzeera. [Jerusalem Post]
• In the event that you find all this Goldstone business confusing, the JTA’s “Goldstone: A Primer,” offers a concise, if somewhat trivializing, play-by-play. [JTA]
• And, just to clear things up: former NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black is definitely not related to YouTube sensation (and possible Jew) Rebecca Black [Gothamist]
Also: why we love the Beastie Boys.
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
When a Daughter of the Holocaust Meets a Daughter of the Third Reich
No one Lynn talked to understood how she, the child of a survivor, could cut ties with her family. Then she met Inga.
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