• Nearly 8,000 Syrians fled to Turkey overnight, as Syrian president Bashar Assad insisted the country was not in a civil war. [Reuters]• Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly faced Giffords’ shooter yesterday at his sentencing. [NYMag]• The Other Israel Film Festival, taking place now in New York, offers a dramatic depiction of life in Israel not offered elsewhere. [NYT]• Greece’s Jewish community strategizes as the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn rises in popularity and influence. [JTA]• ‘Mansplaining’ was defeated during the U.S. elections. Dvora Meyers on why that shouldn’t be such a remarkable achievement. [Jewcy]