Jewcy Zeitgeist: Wedding Massacre, Van Gogh Ear Debate, and Seals Banned

Here are today’s top stories in no particular order:

• 44 are dead after a Turkish wedding massacre, including the bride and groom. Eight suspects have been arrested.

• President Obama has nominated a new head to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Moore Tenenbaum. [Editor’s note: I’ll just go ahead and make a "Royal Tenenbaums" reference and save you all the trouble.]

• New controversy has arisen as to whether Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear or if he lost it in a scuffle with fellow artist and friend Paul Gaugin.

• Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been on a hunger strike in a Tehran prison after being convicted of espionage, has been hospitalized for malnourishment.

• The EU parliament has placed a ban on all seal products, taking aim at Canadian seal-hunting practices.

• The Supreme Court has ruled that, in order to be charged with identity theft, an illegal immigrant must know that stolen papers once belonged to someone else.