• There’s a new hawkish group, the Emergency Committee for Israel. “We’re the pro-Israel wing of the pro-Israel community,” says Bill Kristol, who is involved, as is former McCain adviser Michael Goldfarb. [Politico]
• This is literally an article about five Jewish women from the Five Towns and how they like to play mah-jongg. [NYT]
• The ethics of transgender dating in the Orthodox community. [NYT Magazine]
• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that investigating the planned mosque at Ground Zero would be un-American. [AP/Vos Iz Neias?]
• That guy is totally wearing a Yom Kippur on his head! [Jezebel]
Some perverbs for the evening.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.