Sundown: Right-Wing Loyalty Oath Advances
Plus Hollywood Jews, and more
October 06, 2010
(TV By The Numbers)
• Prime Minister Netanyahu caved, allowing Yisrael Beiteinu’s bill to require all Israelis to swear loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state” to progress closer to law. [Haaretz]
• Do Jews, in fact, control the media? Not really! (They do, however, control Hollywood.) [Slate]
• Hamas has vowed to directly attack senior Palestinian Authority members. [Haaretz]
• Deborah Lipstadt, author of Nextbook Press’s forthcoming The Eichmann Trial, says a new film shows why censorship of Holocaust denial, which she generally opposes, may continue to make sense in Germany. [Guardian]
• Vice President Biden will headline the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly next month in New Orleans. [JTA]
• Why the mere existence of an Iranian nuclear bomb poses an existential threat to Israel. [Commentary]
The latest leg of Bob Dylan’s Neverending Tour is taking him through Tablet Magazine’s hometown of New York. Here’s a song about marriage.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
