Tablet Magazine » Kristen Stewart 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 Sundown: The Plight of Syrian Palestinians http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/75165/sundown-the-plight-of-syrian-palestinians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sundown-the-plight-of-syrian-palestinians http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/75165/sundown-the-plight-of-syrian-palestinians/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:00:11 +0000 Marc Tracy http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=75165 • More than 5,000 Palestinian refugees were forced to flee their camp in Latakia, Syria, following shelling from President Assad’s forces. [AP/Yahoo!]

• The U.S. State Department chastised Israel over its announcement of new building in the settlement of Ariel. [Reuters/Haaretz]

• Twilight actress Kristen Stewart, apparently not a Jew, nonetheless got her start singing “a more serious dreidel song” (which is to say, presumably not the “I made it out of clay” one). [W]

• Splitsville for the Madoffs. [JTA]

• The U.S. military has learned several counterinsurgency tactics from the Israelis. [Abu Muqawama]

• Camp Be’chol Lashon, in Marin County, California, is specifically for Jews of color. [NYT]

Amy Winehouse made out of pills? Amy Winehouse made out of pills.

]]> http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/75165/sundown-the-plight-of-syrian-palestinians/feed/ 2 Sundown: Obama Gets the Picture http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/20619/sundown-obama-gets-the-picture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sundown-obama-gets-the-picture http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/20619/sundown-obama-gets-the-picture/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:00:55 +0000 Hadara Graubart http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=20619 • During President Barack Obama’s term, the painting in the Oval Office’s private dining room has switched from a portrait of George Washington to a pastoral landscape to a Civil War-era painting of Abraham Lincoln and his generals called “The Peacemaker,” which graced the wall during Obama’s recent conference with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. Politico wonders: “Could the White House be trying to send a subliminal message to Netanyahu—or perhaps to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas?” [Politico]
• Journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts spoke to the Washington Post about their marriage in a video that’s part of the paper’s new project exploring interfaith relationships. According to Steve, his 90-year-old mother, who he describes as “a very Jewish woman,” nonetheless went to her first Passover seder at “her Catholic daughter-in-law’s.” [WPost]
• According to a New York Times profile, Twilight star Kristen Stewart did not have a conventional rise to fame: “An agent spotted her as an 8-year-old in a holiday show at her school in Woodland Hills, Calif. (She was singing ‘The Dreidel Song.’)” [NYT]
• Speaking of which, in a long-awaited development, there is now such a thing as Major League Dreidel. A blogger is skeptical: “Any major tournament that pays its winners in bags of chocolate gelt instead of straight money has a while to go.” [Eater]

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