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Hitler Satire to Become a Movie; N.Y. Menorah Vandalized

Plus Madoff’s CFO says employees knew about fraud, and more in the news

by
Stephanie Butnick
December 03, 2013

• Bernard Madoff’s former CFO says Madoff’s employees knew about the fraud being carried out by the investment firm. [NY Post]

• A public menorah in Ronkonkoma, NY was vandalized. [Newsday]

• Streit’s Matzo is getting in the Passover spirit, if the massive amount of boxed egg matzoh outside their downtown New York City factory is any indication. [Bowery Boogie]

• A German satirical novel about Hitler waking up in contemporary Berlin and starring in a television show is being made into a movie by a German film company. [AP]

• Forget about last month’s Swiss tests, a new French forensic test purports to reveal that Yasser Arafat’s death was not, in fact, the result of poisoning. [Jerusalem Post]

• A new survey shows that the longer Israelis live in the United States, the less critical of Israel they apparently become. [JTA]

Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.