Will reconciliation doom or help the statehood cause? Plus little international will on Syria, and more in the news And why you should put him on the All-Star Team But does Yotam Ottolenghi eat pork?  | |  Never mind the nice Jewish girls like Natalie Portman, the most compelling character in today's pop culture is Amy Winehouse, a Jewish mother's worst nightmare but still daddy's little girl In many ways, this has been the season of the Good Jewish Girl. Next week, the proudly Jewish, defiantly curly-haired Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz—a woman "so, so excited to be Jewish"—will become the second woman to lead the Democratic National Committee. Two months ago, the elegant, shiny-haired, opportunely pregnant Natalie Portman ascended the podium at the Academy Awards to collect the Best Actress Oscar—a day before valiantly standing up to her sartorial patron in defense of her people. And Portman took this turn as our modern-day Esther shortly after 21-year-old Loren Galler Rabinowitz became the first Jew to compete for the Miss America title since Bess Myerson won in 1945. "A lot of my friends were taking a gap year in order to make money for school—taking jobs at banks and things," Galler Rabinowitz said. "I wanted to spend a year doing public service, which I've always been extremely passionate about. And this year seemed like my last opportunity before jumping on the hamster wheel of med school." More  | As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has cracked down on his own people, Washington has turned a blind eye for fear of what new regime might emerge. But it's impossible for a new leader to be worse. More |  | In a memoir about her sister's 1990 suicide, Jill Bialosky reckons with Judaism's complicated—and still evolving—position on the taking of one's own life More BY CARMELA CIURARU | |
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