Daybreak: Patching Things Up
Plus Jewish Gaza-bound boat intercepted, and more in the news
September 28, 2010
The Jewish boat, the Irene, a few days ago.(Hasan Mroue/AFP/Getty Images)
• Diplomats are aflutter trying to keep peace talks afloat now that the West Bank construction freeze has expired. [NYT]
• Three members of Islamic Jihad’s armed wing died in an Israeli bombing in Gaza. [NYT]
• According to a new Pew poll, the American religious group most knowledgeable about the Bible, Christianity, and other religions is … atheists/agnostics. Second-most is Jews. [NYT]
• Via email, a boat with Jewish activists headed for Gaza was boarded by the IDF and is being taken toward Ashdod.
• Richard Cohen says the Obama administration botched the peace process by emphasizing the freeze. [WP]
• Stanley Chais, a big investment manager and philanthropist whom federal regulators accused of mismanaging $900 million in relation to the Bernard Madoff scandal, died at 84. [NYT]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
