http://www.tabletmag.com A New Read on Jewish Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:43:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/9497/sundown-foxholes-and-kid-lit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sundown-foxholes-and-kid-lit http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/9497/sundown-foxholes-and-kid-lit/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:00:50 +0000 Hadara Graubart http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=9497 •A game show in Turkey called Penitents Compete pits religious leaders from the world’s major faiths against each other in the battle for the soul of a nonbeliever. The atheists are examined by a panel of theologians to prove their sincerity—presumably based on how well they know their Hitchens. [CNN]
•One atheist who has yet to be won over was relegated to reading All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten at his niece’s bat mitzvah. [Examiner]
•Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swears that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is A-OK. [JTA]
•Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu has declared it preferable for IDF soldiers to go to jail rather than listen to a woman sing at an army event. Perhaps he has been reading too much American news and has the wrong idea about what prison’s like. [Arutz Sheva]
•A Jewish blogger says that although he’s “about as far from joining the Anti-Defamation League as you will find,” he’s glad the Atlantic Coast Conference has moved its baseball tournament from South Carolina after the state refused to remove a Confederate flag. [East Coast Bias]

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