• In the wake of a major crackdown, in which hundreds were arrested, tens of thousands of Syrians nonetheless took to the streets. [WP]
• Harold Bloom, Michael Cunningham, and others are returning their CUNY honorary degrees in protest. [Facebook]
• Though I’m not sure I share all his conclusions, Daniel Levy makes valuable points about how reconciliation represents a heightening of contradictions on all sides and about Egypt’s centrality to all this. [Guardian]
• Considering Dr. Gisella Perl, an Orthodox Jewish obstetrician who performed over 3,000 abortions … in Auschwitz. [Failed Messiah/JI Daily]
• A Haredi newspaper Photoshops Hillary Clinton out of the famous Situation Room photograph. [Circus Tent]
• Dan Snyder is the Devil, in cartoon form. [D.C. Sports Bog]
Again, R.I.P. Arthur Laurents, who wrote the dialogue in this scene, and directed it to boot.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.