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Sundown: Biden Kibbitzes With Jewish Leaders

Plus a heist wife, Israel’s size does’t matter, and more

by
Marc Tracy
March 03, 2010

• Vice President Joe Biden hosted folks from most Jewish-American groups to consult on his upcoming trip to Israel. Conspicuously unrepresented: J Street. [Laura Rozen]

• A columnist argued that Syrian President Bashar Assad is cozying up to Iran not out of rational self-interest and power politics but because he’s an anti-Israel ideologue. [JPost]

• Iran announced plans to seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council in May. Germany’s foreign minister promptly urged countries to oppose the ascension. [Arutz Sheva]

• Crazy story about the Israeli widow of a thief who stole artifacts from the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem; her attempts to sell these back to the museum; and, now, her sentencing in California on a charge of receiving stolen property. [LAT]

• A woman tells how she met her husband because they both liked going to and performing at the same Yiddish theater in London. [Guardian]

• An Israeli tourism ad that … you just have to watch it. [Forecast Highs]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.