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Sundown: War Game Shows Iran War No Game

Plus anti-war meme hits Facebook, Omar Sharif-stein, and more

by
Marc Tracy
March 19, 2012

• A classified U.S. war game has military officials worried about the likelihood of involvement following an Israeli attack on Iran. [NYT]

• But Israelis and Iranians love each other! Or some of them do, on Facebook. Speaking of which, Happy Nowruz! [+972]

• Omar Sharif, Jr., is Omar Sharif’s grandson. He’s also gay and half-Jewish. [Advocate]

• The half-black, half-Jewish, all-American Irish dancing champ. [NYT]

• Top Obama adviser David Axelrod used the questionable term “Mittzkrieg” on Twitter today. [Twitter David Axelrod]

• Somebody should save the Baltimore Jewish Times (and also Washington City Paper). [JTA/Forward]

Fifty years ago today, Bob Dylan’s first album dropped. It included his original version of “Baby Let Me Follow You Down,” a tune he picked up “in the green pastures of Harvard University.” But that version’s not on YouTube, so you’ll have to “settle” for the Royal Albert Hall 1966 version.

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