• The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a U.N. which has garnered attention in recent weeks for its diplomatic efforts to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons cache. [NYT]
• Five Palestinians were arrested in an overnight attack that killed retired IDF colonel Seraiah Ofer, 61, outside his home in the northern Jordan Valley. [Times of Israel]
• Not the Onion: Oil prices jumped $1 after traders incorrectly interpreted tweets from the @IDFSpokesperson account, which was tweeting the events from the Yom Kippur war in a clearly-marked commemoration. [Forward]
• The late Maurice Sendak’s New York City apartment sold for $3.125 million, with proceeds going toward the writer’s grantmaking foundation for young artists. [Curbed]
• Stuck in a shutdown crossfire? Jewish Republicans. [JTA]
• The 27-year-old stylist behind Drake’s epic sweater outfit-turned-meme. [NYT]
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.
