Summer Reading: More on the demise of JDub… and Israel has an ice hockey team?

The Reading List is back! Albeit with less regularity. And it’s the summer. So it’s Summer Reading.

Israel has a hockey team? Ice hockey? And they win things? [Tablet]

Once again, republicans are predicting Jews are going to leave the Democratic party in droves–for real this time! And once again, they’re dead wrong. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Once contestant on “Kochav Nolad,” “A Star is Born,” the Israeli adaptation of “American Idol” is embroiled in scandal as one contestant stuffs the ballot blox. And ratings go up. [Haaretz]

JDub’s demise highlights the American Jewish community’s need for policy on Jewish culture, aside from existing policies for education, Israel, etc. [JTA]

Without a doubt, this is the most in-depth exploration of what JDub’s impending departure from this world means for the community and what other Jewish cultural organizations can learn from it. [Zeek]

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