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Sundown: Canada Neutralizes Railroad Threat

Plus what’s happening in East Ramapo?

by
Adam Chandler
April 22, 2013

• A terrorist plot to blow up the railroad between Toronto and New York City was reportedly thwarted by Canadian security forces working with their American counterparts. [Reuters]

New York reports on the intense social tensions between the Hasidic and immigrant communities of East Ramapo, New York, involving the town’s school system. [NYMag]

• Liam Hoare has a thoughtful essay on what it means to be a liberal British Zionist. [Tower]

• An Iranian man with a fake Israeli passport was apprehended in Nepal and was reportedly planning a series of attacks on the Israeli embassy in Kathmandu and the country’s Israeli visitors. [JPost]

• Seth MacFarlane to host the Oscars again? Apparently, it’s possible. Jewcy has the report. [Jewcy]

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.