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Fidel’s Strange Rosh Hashanah Gift
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What a strange Jewish New Years’ gift – a denunciation of anti-Semitism and praise of the Jewish people from the last standing (at least occasionally) giant of the Cold War. So it was that forever revolutionary Fidel Castro sent a message earlier this week to Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad via a guy named Jeffrey Goldberg, one of today’s great journalists and coincidentally a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces. (Goldberg’s blog, which is both very smart and very witty, is a must read: http://www.theatlantic.com/jeffrey-goldberg/#middle.) Goldberg was in Holy Havana for his publication to interview the iconic and ailing 84-year-old about life in a world with communism as a receding shadow, long-view death bed thoughts and the likes. And the topic seemed to keep coming back to the Jews – which would not be strange for the descendants of Abraham… read more

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