• Clashes in southern Gaza left a Palestinian militant dead and an Israeli soldier wounded. [NYT]
• The developers behind Park51 strongly denied a thinly sourced Haaretz story reporting that they were considering moving the location of the Islamic center. [NY Post/Vos Iz Neias?]
• A former Israeli soldier has caused a firestorm after posting pictures of her with blindfolded Palestinian captives on Facebook. [NYT]
• Hawkish Bush administration official John Bolton predicted that Israel would not attack Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr, which is apparently merely a few days from its own tipping point. [Haaretz]
• U.S. circumcisions have dropped steeply: Fewer than half of boys born in conventional hospitals from 2006 to 2009 received the procedure. [NYT]
• Andrew Roth, a left-wing City College boy who after 1950 plied his journalistic trade in London, died at 91. [NYT]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.