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Sundown: Little News Yet on Chelsea Nuptials

Plus Livni goes off on Bibi, and more

by
Marc Tracy
June 22, 2010
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni earlier this month.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni earlier this month.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

• We learn a fair bit about Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky’s forthcoming wedding, like that it will take place within three hours’ drive from New York City and have 400 guests. No word, however, on the religious character of the ceremony. [NY Mag]

• As the Turkish-Israeli pissing match (and worse) continues, what is the United States—which for various reasons needs both in its corner—to do? [Politico]

• Ethnic tensions in Kyrgyzstan—mostly against the Central Asian country’s Uzbek minority—have led a dozen Jews to leave and make aliyah. Most its 1200 or so Jews, however, have elected to stay. [Ynet]

• Opposition leader Tzipi Livni criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu for easing the Gaza blockade under international pressure and not defending the Supreme Court’s recent decision integrating a religious school. [Ynet]

• A man convicted of helping Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was released in exchange for continuing to cooperate in the search for extant funds. [NBC News/Vos Iz Neias?]

• Tablet Magazine contributor David P. Goldman’s contest: Why do Palestinians deserve a nation-state and Kurds don’t? [First Things]

Yeah, just Drake asking his very obviously Jewish mother for a tuna sandwich. No big deal.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.