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Ben Chorin: we did the Pesach at a hotel on the Dead Sea thing:

Pseudo-Yeshivish Eurotrash -- Antwerpian West Side Boro Park Bnei Brakers who are fluent in five languages and illiterate in every one of them. The men wear Italian hats, suits and shoes and big zilbeneh atarahs. They're either learning or in import-export, depending on whose asking, but in fact are loafing and mooching. The women wear long straight sheitlach with wide bands across the front, Barbie make-up and -- this seems to be the key -- perfectly unchanging vacuous expressions showing no sign of affect (apparently a perk of a fully scripted life). They're cynical about materialism and anti-materialism.

A new documentary on Bryan Mark Rigg�s book: Caught in the middle, part-Jewish Germans served in Nazi army.
Haaretz: Shirt tales from the yeshiva.
Economist.com: Among the audience. The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth. That will profoundly change both the media industry and society as a whole.
FT.com: Social networking becomes work.
I wonder how many of these Shmarya's t-shirts were sold: TEAM KRINSKY Black Tee w/770 on back.
Case closed, Jerusalem Post: Frida Kahlo's father wasn't Jewish after all.
PSU censors anti-terror exhibit. ( via IMRA)
DAVID BERGER: Jerusalem Post: Who controls Lubavitch headquarters?