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The Jewish Reporter, a 33-year-old Las Vegas-area newspaper, is folding after Rosh Hashanah, the Las Vegas Sun reports today. Like most Jewish newspapers in the United States, the publication—which is free and has a circulation of about 17,000—was funded by its local Jewish Federation and focused on local events. “We had to reevaluate our ...

• “When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you know him.” Comedian Andy Borowitz imagines a more satisfying apology from Ruth Madoff. [HuffPo]
• French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly advised Israeli P.M. Netanyahu to ditch his ultra-right-wing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in favor of centrist Tzipi Livni. Although this bold suggestion ...

The first meal I had with François Camoin was at the all-you-can-eat buffet at the Mandalay Bay, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was a deeply American undertaking: frivolous, super-abundant, predictive of heart disease. We had paid an entrance fee of $21.75, which entitled us to a meal fit for an African despot: lamb chops, pink ...