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Sundown: Israeli Judge Concerned By New Bills
Plus Jewish rap from Drake to Jay-Z, and more
• The president of Israel’s Supreme Court publicly worried about the spate of right-wing legislation. [Haaretz/Forward]
• “The 25 Best Jewish References in Rap.” Internet perfection. [Complex]
• Incredible photo. Click. [Journal of a Journalist]
• A side of Eric Cantor you haven’t seen, and will then wish you hadn’t. [VF]
• For the record, some of us don’t look very Jewish and have oddly Irish names and love it when the Chabadniks accost us and ask if we’re of the tribe. [The Awl]
• Dr. Brown’s cocktails. Dr. Brown’s cocktails! [Jewcy]
• Rabbi Andy Bachman ponders whether he is right to teach his children to love Israel. [Water Over Rocks]
Merry Christmas to the Christians; happy solstice to the pagans.
How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority
- Debating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Demands Empathy, Not Just History
- Remembering Estelle Getty, Who Would Have Turned 91 Today
- Gigantic Replica of Solomon’s Temple Opens in Brazil
- Graphic Novelist Liana Finck on Yiddish Letters, Teen Angst, and Becoming a Book Person
