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• Abraham Foxman calls for civility in public discourse. [HuffPo]
• Hezbollah head advocates a nuclear reactor in Lebanon. Sure, why not? [Now Lebanon]
• Ron Kampeas takes Paul Krugman to task for demagoguing the ADL/Park51 issue. [Capital J]
• Joseph O’Neil has a great essay on novelist Muriel Spark, who—who knew?—had a Jewish father. [The Atlantic]
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• The latest is that Nadim Injaz, a 32-year-old Ramallah resident, had sought asylum in the Turkish embassy after having been released from Israeli jail recently and in the past been portrayed in the West Bank as an Israeli collaborator. He carried a knife and a toy gun. He was wounded by gunfire and taken ...

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• Amid the almost impossible amount of adoration for Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (look, the guy is in many ways great, but you would think he walks on water), here is an alternate take. [Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]
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• President Obama called retired White House reporter Helen Thomas’s statements about Jews “offensive” and “out of line.” [JPost]
• The U.S. State Department wants “international participation” in Israel’s probe of the flotilla raid. Which is probably vague enough not to ruffle Israel’s feathers … for now. [Haaretz]
• Yuri “Star of David” Foreman, soon to undergo ...

• Sources say that President Obama will nominate Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law, to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. [HuffPo]
• M.J. Rosenberg says that Millennials, and especially American Jewish Millennials on the question of Israel, would be more aptly named “the Jon Stewart generation.” [MediaMatters]
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Okay, so admittedly there was a slight smile on the face of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) when Jon Stewart asked him last night, “Is Lieberman a dick?” and he answered, “Yes, Jon.” But he didn’t qualify it! And certainly Weiner might feel sourly toward Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut), given the latter’s brazen health-care flip-flopping.
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• Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein reports from his travels that while the problem of pluralism and gender discrimination in Israel gets little attention among Israelis, it is very important to Diaspora Jews. [Haaretz]
• Some former Obama supporters among Orthodox Jews are feeling buyer’s remorse. [The Jewish Star/Failed Messiah]
• The Dubai police commissioner pledged to seek ...

Jon Stewart weighs in on Hamas’s new children’s television show, A Special Mission—the one in which Fatah policeman Bahlul is a satrap to an Israeli soldier with long sidecurls and a penchant for machine-gunning Palestinian children and drinking their blood.
The clip is worth watching, particularly for Stewart’s own cartoon, “Jewby Doo.” And also for this ...

• A new study out of Haifa University says that the more love for Israel you have in your heart, the less of an accent you will have when speaking Hebrew. [Haaretz]
• Last night, the mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, had his car pummeled with stones by ultra-Orthodox protesters. [JPost]
• Jon Stewart is “a staunch ...

• Columnist Ron Rosenbaum asks Daily Show host Jon Stewart to change his name back to the original: Jon Stuart Leibowitz. [Slate]
• Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)’s recent engagement to a Muslim woman—a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Huma Abedin—has spawned a lot of conversation and perhaps a little controversy. [New York ...