Sundown: Billboard Strikes Out, Is Struck
Plus the goose that lays the golden trayf, and more
November 23, 2011
The Scroll and Tablet Magazine will publish no new content until Monday. Hope everybody has a happy Thanksgiving!
• “Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing,” read the billboard in Manhattan (!) advertising vodka. It’s already been taken down. [NYT]
• Don’t expect the four Hezbollah members indicted for the 2005 slaying of the former Lebanese prime minister to be tried in international court, even in absentia, anytime soon. [AP/WP]
• This Op-Ed alleges that Israel’s laudable record on gay rights is merely “pinkwashing”: an effort to distract from the cruelty and injustice of the occupation. I see the writer’s point, but I think this is a pretty reductive way to view an entire country. You can believe the occupation is a relevant, even the most relevant, fact of Israel and not believe it’s the only fact. [NYT]
• They’re playing Mohammed ElBaradei’s music in Egypt again! [Ynet]
• Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West, who in 2010 unseated very liberal Democrat Ron Klein in his Palm Beach district, appears mighty vulnerable. [Forward]
• Eli Hurvitz, founder of Teva, the Israeli company that is the world’s largest manufacturer of generic drugs, has died at 79. [NYT]
• Israel’s chief rabbi is expected to authorize the import of an organic goose that tastes just … like … pork. [AP/WP]
• David Makovsky offers his take on the prospect of Israel striking Iran’s nuclear weapons program. [Washington Institute for Near East Policy]
• Jeffrey Chodorow’s new Catskills-homage Tribeca deli sounds like a satirist’s idea of Jeffrey Chodorow’s new Catskills-homage Tribeca deli. Doesn’t mean it won’t be good, though! [Grub Street]
It appears that this is not an official Ron Paul for President ad. That is certainly an interesting take on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, though.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
