• According to a Pentagon assessment, North Korea may have the capacity to make a nuclear missile. [NYT]
• The five women arrested at the monthly Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall were released after being detained and questioned for several hours. [JTA]
• Martyl Langsdorf, designer of the Doomsday Day Clock, has died at age 96. [NYT]
• A Palestinian-American teenager accused of throwing rocks at Israeli motorists have been held in military lock-up for a week, stirring some controversy from American civil liberties groups. [Haaretz/AP]
• Turning heads in a lot of corners today is the trial of Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor charged with the murder of eight. Justin Green reports. [Daily Beast]
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.