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Sundown: Bye-Bye, Baghdad

Plus Winehouse’s father gets book deal, Hitch, and more

by
Marc Tracy
October 10, 2011

• The remaining members of Baghdad’s tiny, ancient Jewish community may be forced to leave now that their names were released in a WikiLeaks-published cable. [McClatchy]

• Amy Winehouse’s father is writing a book; it will be called Amy. [NYT ArtsBeat]

• Hitch—Someone bless him—is still going at it. [NYT]

• Tablet Magazine columnist Bethlehem Shoals on why Al Davis was obsessed with Hitler. [Bethlehem Says]

• New York City’s power congregations. [NY Observer]

• Tablet Magazine contributor Gillian Laub has a series of amazing photos set at the Tel Aviv beach. [Time Lightbox]

In case you haven’t seen, here is Ben Stiller’s heavily Jewish Saturday Night Live monologue.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.