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Sundown: Let The Next Fiscal Crisis Begin

Plus the youngest survivor on Schindler’s list dies at 83

by
Adam Chandler
January 14, 2013
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz With Christine Moore(MissBrooklyn2011)
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz With Christine Moore(MissBrooklyn2011)

• President Obama warned Congress that inaction on the looming debt ceiling limit could cause the markets to tumble and reignite a recession. [Bloomberg]

• Leon Leyson, who as a 13-year-old in Oskar Schindler’s factory had to stand atop boxes to work the machines, has died at age 83. He was the youngest person saved by Schindler’s famous list. [LAT]

• According to reports, The European Union is currently working on and may ultimately propose its own Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. [Times of Israel]

• A savvy group of Los Angelenos has formulated its own West Coast parody of the hit HBO show Girls. Jewcy reports. [Jewcy]

• Check out this fun interesting collection of photographs from a week in the life of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. [NYT]

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.