[The security guard shot at the Holocaust Museum has died; see Update.]
NBC is reporting that James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from Maryland, is the gunman involved in the shooting this afternoon at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 
Brunn may have had connections to white supremacist hate groups, according to NBC.
MSNBC is reporting [...]

The video shot recently in central Jerusalem by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana allowed young American Jews, apparently somewhat sloshed, to hold forth on their views of President Obama, prior to his speech last week in Cairo, Egypt. 
On his blog, Max Blumenthal comments:
We encountered rowdy groups of beer sodden twenty-somethings, many from the United States, [...]

Socalled (a.k.a. Josh Dolgin), the mixmaster from Montreal, has created an amazing music video for “(Rock The) Belz,” from the album Ghettoblaster (JDub Records). The four-and-a-half minute puppet piece — featuring Socalled, folk legend Theodore Bikel and rapper Sans Pression — was directed by Kaveh Nabatian and produced by Sach Baylin-Stern. You can find more [...]

In Austin, Minn., on Wednesday, protesters from both sides of the immigration issue faced off in a verbal sparring match in front of the government center.
According to the Austin Daily Herald, the protest pitted people who want to crack down on illegal immigration against people who disagree with their message. The protest was scheduled by [...]

A storm of controversy is swirling around Rabbi Manis Friedman, the Lubavitcher rabbi from St. Paul, who is now backpedaling from his comments published in Moment magazine.

Rabbi Friedman

The Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and the Pioneer Press (St. Paul) both gave ink to the to-and-fro following Friedman’s recent adventure in journalism. The Strib story quoted an official [...]

A reporter from the Forward newspaper in New York City called yesterday with some questions about a short piece of writing by Rabbi Manis Friedman that appeared in the May-June edition of Moment magazine.
The white-bearded Lubavitch rabbi from St. Paul responded, along with rabbis from other Jewish streams, to the question, “How Should Jews Treat [...]

The press notes say that Woody Allen’s latest New York-based offbeat comedy is “about a crotchety misanthrope (Larry David) and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south (Evan Rachel Wood). When her uptight [Christian fundamentalist] parents, (Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley, Jr.) arrive to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic [...]