• President Obama warned Congress that inaction on the looming debt ceiling limit could cause the markets to tumble and reignite a recession. [Bloomberg]
• Leon Leyson, who as a 13-year-old in Oskar Schindler’s factory had to stand atop boxes to work the machines, has died at age 83. He was the youngest person saved by Schindler’s famous list. [LAT]
• According to reports, The European Union is currently working on and may ultimately propose its own Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. [Times of Israel]
• A savvy group of Los Angelenos has formulated its own West Coast parody of the hit HBO show Girls. Jewcy reports. [Jewcy]
• Check out this fun interesting collection of photographs from a week in the life of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. [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.