Sundown: Brotherhood Candidate Looks Strong

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Plus troubling find at Iranian facility, and more in the news Muhammed Mursi campaign posters at a polling station yesterday.(STR/AFP/GettyImages) • After the first round of presidential elections, it appeared that the Muslim B ...
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A Doctor for Women, and New York

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Each week, we select the most interesting Jewish obituary. Today it’s that of Dr. Jean Pakter, who died Tuesday at 101. She seems like something of a Robert Moses of women’s rights: working for more than two decades from an innocuous-sounding New York ...
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Rudy’s Rocky Road

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Tablet Magazine in your inbox Tablet is the daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Sign up for our newsletter to get your daily dose of Tablet Magazine each morning. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ‘America’s Mayor,’ who once ...
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First Day of Nuclear Talks Produce Zilch

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P5+1 countries Iran talk again today. Will they do more than talk? It’s a little surprising that some (including, I think, myself) are surprised, but the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran yesterday in Baghdad were not a ...
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Israeli Cheese Goes Artisanal

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For almost 30 years, Dror and Sarah Friede have lived in the tiny community of Ezuz, in the furthest western reaches of Israel’s Negev Desert on the Egyptian border. Dror tends to about 100 goats, while Sarah makes yogurt ...
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Mitt Romney’s Mormon Politics

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Is there a Jewish equivalent to the translation of sacred to political? Two recent pieces have explored how Mitt Romney’s devout Mormon faith directly informs his politics. In the New York Times, Jodi Kantor reports, “Mormons have a long tra ...
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Baz Luhrmann’s Meyer Wolfsheim

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In new ‘The Great Gatsby’ film, Jewish mobster played by Bollywood star The talk of the day is the new trailer for The Great Gatsby (below), whose true title, it appears, should probably be something more like Baz Luhrmann Presents The Great Gat ...
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Friedmometer: Bibi’s Opportunity

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Friedman calls on prime minister to put his new coalition to work on peace The Friedmometer tracks left-of-center conventional wisdom about the state of peace in the land between the river and the sea through the eyes of Thomas Friedman. Today, Friedman ...
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Egypt Heads to Polls Amid Uncertain Outcome

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13 candidates, four frontrunners, (probably) two finalists An empty ballot box this morning and a grinning bearer.(Mahmud Hams/AFP/GettyImages) If you happen to know who is going to win Egypt’s presidential elections—whose first round is today and tom ...
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