Elsewhere: Arab Spring’s scapegoats, Virginia prayer plea, haredi wedding photos

JTA rounds up noteworthy items from the Web.

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The ‘eternal Jew’ and the Arab Spring: The recurring idea that Jewish conspiracy leads to Arab societies’ woes is due to a failure in leadership, Aomar Boum writes. (Tablet)

Virginia prayer inclusion push: Some Virginia lawmakers want the official prayers in the state legislature to be more inclusive. (Washington Post)

What a haredi Orthodox wedding looks like: In this photo essay, smoking children, opaque veils and sex separation characterize a haredi Orthodox wedding in Jerusalem.  (Daily Mail)

Victorian ladies at a Jewish table: A Jewish group in Northwest London gathers to resurrect the recipes from an 1846 manual on upper-class Jewish home life. (Forward)

 

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