A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:
Push for peace
Secretary of State John Kerry made a call for more peace talks while addressing the American Jewish Committee this week. “We are running out of time,” ” target=”_blank”>said Daniel Greenfield at Right Side News. “Unfortunately, wishful thinking is a poor guide to navigate the treacherous waters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What Kerry lacks is a dose of cold realism,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote Liel Leibovitz at Tablet. For her part, Keys said she won't back out of the show: “I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show,” ” target=”_blank”>removed from an AirTran flight this week after they allegedly misbehaved and wouldn't shut down their electronic devices before takeoff. “They treated us like we were terrorists,” student Jonathan Zehavi told CNN. “I think if it was a group of non-religious kids, the air stewardess wouldn’t have dared to kick them off.” Terry Maxon at the Dallas Morning News ” target=”_blank”>said James Johnson at The Inquistr.
Whiskey love
The New York Times ran a ” target=”_blank”>wrote a Heeb blogger. “What the article doesn’t mention is that whiskey is delicious and it gets you good and ripped, which is, I suppose, the only way some of us could make it through a synagogue event in the first place.”
Knaidel controversy
Arvind Mahankali may have won last week's Scripps National Spelling Bee, but the debate went on long after the final word. He correctly spelled the Yiddish word “knaidel,” to tak home the top prize, but some argued that the word doesn't really have one proper spelling to it. “Like Helen of Troy with her ships, knaidel seems to be 2013’s food that launched a thousand complaints,” ” target=”_blank”>pointed out Alexandra Petri at The Washington Post.
