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Sundown: But Will Ashley Biden Convert?

Plus ground operation in Gaza cleared, the problem with Tebow, and more

by
Marc Tracy
November 01, 2011
Jill and Ashley Biden last year.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
Jill and Ashley Biden last year.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

• Vice President Biden’s daughter is marrying a Jew! And not only that … he’s a doctor! [Naked Philadelphian]

• The IDF has been given the go-ahead to continue to stop rocket attacks from Gaza, including, in theory, a ground operation. Judge Goldstone’s op-ed may have been more well-timed than he knew. [AP/Vos Iz Neias?]

• Jason Diamond eloquently points out that the way Tim Tebow wears religion on his sleeve is the exact opposite of Koufaxing. [Jewcy]

• Brett Ratner—of Money Talks and the Rush Hour franchise—will direct an adaptation of the book Hunting Eichmann. Not sure he’s the best guy for the project, but OK. [Forward The Schmooze]

• Maybe Amar’e Stoudemire’s get-up yesterday wasn’t a costume … . [Page Six]

• A co-founder of Hamas only recently released from Israeli prison was arrested again. One of his sons was the one who became an Israeli informant. [JTA]

T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx: best friends forever? Not quite, but the anti-Semitic poet did admire the Jewish comic, with predictably hilarious results. Here is a late-period Groucho treasure.

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