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Sundown: Peace Now?
Plus Grayson’s back, trouble in Moscow, and more
• Apparently the thing that proximately doomed last night’s Quartet meeting to not even producing a statement was the question of whether to require the Palestinians to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. [Haaretz]
• Gideon Rachman on why the time is simply not ripe for the peace process. [Financial Times]
• Peace Now, which previously had never advocated a boycott, today called for one in response to the anti-boycott law. (Got all that?) [JPost]
• Outspokenly liberal former Rep. Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida, is running again. [Ben Smith]
• Anti-Semitism envoy Hannah Rosenthal fights an uphill effort to get Arab countries to change their filthy textbooks. [JTA/Forward]
• A Moscow synagogue was firebombed, although the bombs, fortunately, didn’t actually go off. [JTA]
Jerusalem, in Imax! Well, once you go see it in theaters.
Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemGiantScreen on Vimeo.
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.
