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Daybreak: Post-Speech, Bibi Chills Out
Plus, Abbas, Ross, the Druze, and more in the news
• President Obama’s AIPAC speech yesterday appeared to sate the Netanyahu government (and the prime minister himself took a nice walk along the Potomac with his wife). [WP]
• Meanwhile, also in response to the speeches, President Abbas doubled down on his new alliance with Hamas. [Ynet]
• The Golan Heights, from the perspective of its 20,000 or so Druze inhabitants. [NYT]
• A profile of top administration adviser Dennis Ross, generally seen as Israel’s best friend in the White House. [NYT]
• Roger Cohen stands by Obama. [NYT]
• For the second time this month, masked men shot and killed a suspected Israeli collaborator in the West Bank—generally a rarity under the Abbas/Fayyad regime. [Reuters/Vos Iz Neias?]
At AIPAC Summit, Obama Stays His Course
Reiterates stance on 1967 borders with swaps; is cheered for remarks on Hamas, Shalit
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.
