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.
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.
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.
