L’shanah tovah

September 4th, 2013 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — life is full of habitual regularities without which there could be no sudden surprises ]

"Shanah Tovah!" —President Obama wishes the Jewish community in America and around the world a happy Rosh Hashanah: http://t.co/eSgvGKZDVg

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 4, 2013

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Greetings for Rosh Hashana 5774. Shana Tova! Happy New Year! http://t.co/LEkSeuo0ZS …

— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) September 4, 2013

As the sun is about to set here in #Tehran I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah. pic.twitter.com/tmaf84x7UR

— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) September 4, 2013

2 comments on this post.

Jonathan:

September 5th, 2013 at 9:41 pm

The Rouhani tweet is being reported as bogus. But two out of three isn’t bad.
Charles Cameron:

September 5th, 2013 at 10:37 pm

Hard to tell — and hard to evaluate in any case. But here are two updates, one crying hoax, one crying not so:

UPDATE: Reader “Dale” sent this link saying it looks like a hoax:
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Not only were the blessings not a diplomatic signal, they weren’t even really blessings from Rouhani himself, according to Iran’s official Fars News Agency.
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Mohammad Reza Sadeq, an adviser to Rouhani, said the Iranian president doesn’t even have a Twitter account (although he kept referring to it as “tweeter”), let alone that he was behind the eyebrow-raising tweet purportedly from the leader of a country that wishes for Israel’s destruction.
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UPDATE #2: Joanne McPortland tells me “Christiane Amanpour claims she just interviewed him. No hoax.”