Jewish words at the Spelling Bee The 2013 Spelling Bee was won on the word “knaidel.” A recent history of Jewish words in the bee. By Adam Soclof May 30, 2013 5:57 pm
Is baseball’s opening pitch just a shtick? The New York Times notes the practice of adding opening pitches as a marketing ploy; but that’s not exactly why FDR pitched twice in 1940. May 30, 2013 12:15 pm
New Jersey Palestinian flag flap breezes over Paterson, N.J., raised some Internet hackles in flying the Palestinian flag above its City Hall — perhaps the first U.S. city to do so — but received no official complaints. For Israel, Philly was first in raising the flag in ’48. May 21, 2013 3:04 pm