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The Week In Rear View, January 12 Edition

All the news that’s fit to skim

by
Jesse Bernstein
January 12, 2018
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Steven Spielberg speaks onstage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 9th Annual Governors Awards/(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Steven Spielberg speaks onstage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 9th Annual Governors Awards/(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Folks, we’ve got Jews, we’ve got news, let’s just get into it. Here’s what you might’ve missed this week:

Yair Netanyahu, making us proud: “Bro, you have to spot me. My dad made an awesome deal for your dad, bro. He fought, fought in the Knesset for this, bro,” and, “Bro, my dad just got you a $20 billion deal and you can’t spot me 400 shekels?” I wish I had written that myself but it is a direct quote from the son of Israel’s prime minister, delivered outside of a strip club he frequented very, very often.

Spielberg says he’ll back Oprah in 2020This will mark the pair’s first collaboration since The Color Purple (1985).

British blogger taken to court over Holocaust tunes: Before you ask, and I know you were going to, yes, the blogger/lyricist Alison Chabloz does call Auschwitz a “theme park for fools” in one of the songs, for which she faces charges of “sending obscene material by public communication.”

A plan for integrating Muslim migrants in GermanyTo stem anti-Semitism, one lawmaker of Palestinian descent has proposed a new plan that would have recently arrived migrants tour concentration camps on arrival. This seems like the equivalent of smashing two dolls together and telling them to kiss, but hey, Ronald Lauder loves this idea!

It is now safe to return to Mahane YehudaStriking municipal workers were protesting massive layoffs in Jerusalem, and consequently, the city’s most famous shuk looked like a landfill for parts of this week.

Jesse Bernstein is a former Intern at Tablet.