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Sundown: Leiby Kletzy’s Killer to Plead Guilty

Israeli tennis team dethrones Federer, Swiss.

by
Adam Chandler
August 01, 2012
Levi Aron(AP)
Levi Aron(AP)

• Levi Aron, accused perpetrator of the grisly murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzy, will plead guilty in the murder case and likely face the rest of his life in prison. [NYDN]

• Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram, the duo representing the Israeli men in Olympic doubles tennis, came back to stun Roger Federer and Stanislaw Wawrinca, the defending Olympic champions. [JTA]

• Following our story on the 10th anniversary of the Hebrew U. bombing, a reader sent forth his own very personal account of the attack. [Mordechai Rackover]

• Forbes is reporting that Jonah Lehrer is canceling a speech on the topic of ethics that he was due to give at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. [Forbes]

• Secret’s in the consistency: Aviv Harkov crushes all other baba ghanoushes with her own special recipe. [Jewcy]

• Deena Fuchs, after her fourth child, opines on motherhood and striking a balance. [EJP]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.