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Sundown: Tearing Down the Bil’in Wall
Plus, Sharansky on Bonner, Bachman on Benedikt, and more
• The barrier near the West Bank village of Bil’in, a source of concentrated protest ever since the Israeli Supreme Court ordered it gone nearly four years ago, has begun to be removed. [Ynet]
• Prompted by Goldblog, Friend-of-The-Scroll Rabbi Andy Bachman pens the best response yet to the Awl essay. [Water Over Rocks]
• Speaking at Israel’s Presidential Conference, Dennis Ross—the adviser seen as the strongest pro-Israel voice within the White House—called on Israel to return to negotiations in order to forestall delegitimization. [Haaretz]
• Gal Beckerman talks to Natan Sharansky about the recently deceased Yelena Bonner. [Forward]
• Name Jewish celebrity baby children! [Kveller]
• Ron Kaplan profiles slugger Shawn Green. [NJ Jewish News]
Rebecca Goldstein, author of Nextbook Press’s Betraying Spinoza, advises that if philosophers were stocks in a market, you’d want to dump Descartes and go long on Spinoza. Somehow, that reminds me of this:
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Yisrael
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
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.
