The Reading List: Jewblogs pan “Eat, Pray, Love”

Who cares if the 42-year old Julia Roberts still manages to look like she’s thirty? Jewblogs across the internets (well, two of them, at least) have given two thumbs down to the self-absorbed story of a woman going on a culinary-spiritual dream tour around the world so she can find herself. This critique from Tablet is telling: “I would rather sit on a stoop in the rain than see ‘Eat Pray Love.’ In fact, I did just that.” [The Scroll] [Jewschool]

After a life of 150 years, it looks like the tree “immortalized” in Anne Frank’s diary was indeed mortal. [Reuters]

The JTA asks a good question: As long as there’s going to be a kosher version of “Top Chef,” shouldn’t the contestants be cooking cholent? [Telegraph]

In another indication of how bad of an idea the Jerusalem Light Rail is, the transportation system’s new owners put out this racist survey. [Forward Shmooze]

And to end on a positive review, a young blogger writes that Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story” has put her back in love with the nebbish Russian Jewish immigrant. [Jewlicious]

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