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Sundown: It’s Celine’s Pastrami Now

Plus, the mail man’s lament, Koch’s courage and more

by
Dan Klein
March 07, 2012

• Celine Dion is buying the legendary Schwartz’s deli in Montreal. [HuffPo Canada]

• Tzipi Livni also thinks that Netanyahu’s Holocaust imagery is inappropriate. [JPost]

• An anti-Shariah law in Florida is likely to sweep Orthodox divorce in its net. [Forward]

• Man-about-town Ed Koch tells of standing up to an anti-Semitic platoon leader in WWII. [Moth]

• The attempt to erect a Hebrew-language billboard calling God a myth on a building in Hasidic S. Williamsburg failed after the landlord wouldn’t let workers get onto the roof. [JTA]

• Between Iran sanctions, the Euro and the Arab Spring Palestinians are basically the Jan Brady of the world. Marcia Marcia Marcia! [NYT]

• Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night shall keep these couriers from the completion of their appointed rounds—unless they’re Israeli mailmen delivering New Testaments. [RNS]

Jon Stewart mediates between Iran, Israel, and the United States.