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Sundown: Are Jews Shorting Obama’s Stock?

Plus Googling the Dead Sea Scrolls, and more

by
Marc Tracy
September 26, 2011
The Shrine of the Book, in Jerusalem, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed.(Wikipedia)
The Shrine of the Book, in Jerusalem, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed.(Wikipedia)

• Forty-five percent of the American Jewish Committee’s respondents approve of President Obama’s job, a 12 percent drop from last year. [Ben Smith]

• Google has digitized the Dead Sea Scrolls. Next: the original Ten Commandments. [AP/WP]

• A conference in Morocco last week convened to remember the Holocaust. [NYT]

• The U.N. Security Council held an informal, closed-door “consultation” on the Palestinians’ resolution. [JPost]

• The Ethicist tackles the clash between Shabbat observance and delayed flights. It’s like the ski lift Curb. [NYT Magazine]

• Here is your Rosh Hashanah card. [someecards]

For another Website, I wrote about the greatest professional football rivalry there is: Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys. (Jewish footnote to the article: Brad Sham, longtime Voice of the Cowboys, is Jewish.) They play tonight. Hail!

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