Three items of possible interest to normblog readers, from the latest edition of the Jewish Daily Forward:
> A piece about Mohamed Hawary, an Egyptian scholar of Hebrew studies and Jewish thought.
> At the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, in the presence of a number of rabbis interested in developing closer relations between Muslims and Jews, 'a New York imam, spoke critically of Jews, saying that the Holocaust happened to the Jews "because they were serially disobedient to Allah." He also said that a small handful of Jews around President Obama "control the world."' None out of 10 for intelligence, ditto for timing. ISNA disowned his remarks.
> And, further to this post, a column on US Jewish support for Obama over Israel, and on the merits and demerits of the public expression of differences of opinion among allies.
