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Daybreak: Syrians Flee to Turkey

Plus Giffords faces her shooter, Greek Jews strategize, and more

by
Stephanie Butnick
November 09, 2012
Syrians cross the border into Turkey on November 9, 2012 near the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar. Five Turks in Ceylanpinar, which lies across from Ras al-Ain, were lightly wounded on November 8, 2012 by ricocheting bullets from the Syrian side.(-/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrians cross the border into Turkey on November 9, 2012 near the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar. Five Turks in Ceylanpinar, which lies across from Ras al-Ain, were lightly wounded on November 8, 2012 by ricocheting bullets from the Syrian side.(-/AFP/Getty Images)

• 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]


Stephanie Butnick is the founder of GOLDA, a Jewish lifestyle newsletter. She hosted the Tablet podcast Unorthodox, co-authored The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between, and worked as a writer and editor at Tablet.