• Mayim Bialik was badly injured when a car of tourists from Chile hit her Volvo yesterday. Her husband later posted on her Twitter account that she wouldn’t lose any fingers.
• Israeli physicists basically swept the 43rd Annual International Physics Olympiad in Estonia. Mazel!
• In the New York Times, Dwight Garner explains why book critics should be critical—and gives a nice shout out to Jewcy columnist Jacob Silverman
• Happy 89th birthday, Israeli President Shimon Peres.
• Jake Gyllenhaal will star as a down-on-his-luck gambler in the upcoming flick Mississippi Grind.
• Stephen Colbert gets some new interns, and one of them is Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman.
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