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Sundown: Syria Broadcasts Hama in Ruins
Plus, Ratner at the Oscars, Kagan’s first year, Bar Rafaeli is single, and more
• Images released by Syria’s state media show the damage to the city of Hama after a seige by Syrian military forces. [NYT]
• The unbelievable story of the 101-year-old Leon Weinstein, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and was reunited with his young daughter in 1945, after four years of her living in orphanages. [LA Times]
• Brett Ratnor will co-produce the 2012 Oscars with television producer Don Mischer. [LA Times]
• Former Rep. Anthony Weiner sold his Forest Hills co-op. [NY Post]
• Restaurateur Danny Meyer gets profiled in this weekend’s Times Magazine. It will probably make you hungry. [NYT]
• Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli and businessman David Fisher have broken up. [6 Degrees no Bacon]
• An ode to Bel Kaufman, Sholem Aleichem’s granddaughter. [Jewcy]
• One year ago today, Elena Kagan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court Justice. We hear the first year is the hardest. [Jewish Women’s Archive]
• A comedy about a struggling actress hosting a seder for her neighbors? We’re in. [New Yorker]
• New Yorkers, celebrate Shel Silverstein this weekend in Central Park. [Gothamist]
• I’ve seen the future, and it is kosher. [NYT]
Fyvush Finkel: A Charming Conversation With a Longtime Serious Mensch
As the 91-year-old Yiddish theater star embarks on a Purim cabaret show, we revisit his appearance on Vox Tablet
Pin the Crime on the Jew: Blood Libel and the Case of Mendel Beilis
Edmund Levin plumbs trial transcripts to examine how one of Russia’s biggest court cases fed on the myth of Jewish malice
As If You Needed It, Yet Another Reason To Be in Miami: The Delis
Evolving Jewish culture—and doctors’ orders—dealt a blow to South Florida’s delicatessens. But they’re making a comeback.
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