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Sundown: U.S., Russian Presidents Talk Iran

Plus Gallaudet’s Jewish head, survivors’ cancer, and more

by
Marc Tracy
April 08, 2010
Gallaudet President T. Alan Hurwitz.(University of Rochester)
Gallaudet President T. Alan Hurwitz.(University of Rochester)

• Presidents Obama and Medvedev, in Prague today to sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty, also discussed Iran in a bilateral meeting. It was “a step forward” for sanctions, said an adviser. [Laura Rozen]

• An overview of Tel Aviv’s eclectic, advanced dining scene. [WP]

• In New York City tomorrow night? Tablet Magazine columnist Josh Lambert is moderating a pre-Shabbat discussion with novelists Gary Shteyngart and Amy Sohn at the 92nd Street Y’s Tribeca branch. [92Y Tribeca]

• A good profile of T. Alan Hurwitz, who is the first Jewish president of Gallaudet University, the school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Washington, D.C. [Forward]

• Holocaust survivors who subsequently moved to Israel have a cancer rate 17 percent higher than that of European-born Jews who left before or during World War II. [Reuters/The Province]

• In Belgrade, Serbia, there is a campaign afoot to make a monument out of a Modernist 1930s fairground turned Nazi concentration camp (where over 7,000 Serbian Jews were murdered) turned seedy nightlife district. [NYT T Magazine]

Tiger Woods returned to golf today. As of this writing, he completed the front nine of the Masters’s opening round at -3, a five-way tie for third place. After all that has happened, it’s at least worth remembering why so many people care about him in the first place.

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