Sundown: Iran Goaded Gaza Terrorists
Plus the Jews of 1600 Pennsylvania, and more
March 20, 2012
A man in Ashdod, Israel, after a rocket attack.(Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
• Israel has accused Iran of operating in Gaza and Sinai, and forcing Islamic Jihad to prolong last week’s rocket exchanges. [Haaretz]
• On Peter Beinart’s Zion Square, dissents from his “Zionist B.D.S.” op-ed from Yousef Munayyer (from the left) and Yehudah Mirsky (from the right; or at least the center). [Zion Square/Zion Square]
• A group-profile of the past several White House Jewish liaisons. I want the bathing-suit calendar! [Mishpacha Magazine/Baltimore Jewish Times]
• The IDF did not permit screenings of the award-winning The Law in These Parts, a new documentary critical of the occupation. [Haaretz]
• Milton Balkany’s appeal failed. [FIN alternatives]
• At the Brooklyn Nets’ new arena in Brooklyn, you will be able to buy Brooklyn water straight from … Florida. [Grub Street]
Will there ever be another Gloria Steinem? (Actually, it might be Tablet Magazine columnist Irin Carmon!)
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
