• With fears mounting about Syria’s unstable chemical weapons stockpile, according to reports, the IDF will given its medics doses of a chemical weapons antidote. [Times of Israel]
• The head rabbi of the Lithuanian haredi community in Israel says that yeshiva students should not enlist in Israeli national service programs. [JTA]
• Jewish students in Binghamton, New York claim to have broken the Guinness World Records for dreidel spinning. Their parents set the record for most simultaneous utterances of: For this I sent you to college? [JTA]
• In a sign of Israel’s growing popularity in the tech field, Google sets up an innovation campus in Tel Aviv [AP]
• Five hundreds years after the Inquisition, a look at Spain’s initiative to invite Sephardic Jews back. [NYT]
Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.