Jews fit to print: Elderly bat-mitzvahs

In recent days, the Times has covered …

• The bat-mitzvah preparations of a group of senior women in Ohio, residents of the senior residence Menorah Park (I love that name)
• The challenges facing Jerusalem’s recently installed mayor, Nir Barkat
• The coincidence of an event at the Center for Jewish History with Bernard Madoff’s guilty plea (here’s the blog post that accompanied the story)
• The "religious war" brewing in the ranks of the Israeli army
• The death of Lower East Side poet and mystic Lionel Ziprin
• The perspective on Bernard Madoff of a Merkin other than J. Ezra
• The empowerment Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi (and the limits it imposes on the potential for political change)
• The latest missive from Roger Cohen on Iran (check out Uri Heilman’s deconstruction of Cohen here)