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Muriel Seibert, The Jewish Woman Who Became A Pioneering Figure in Finance, Dies at 84 27 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
Muriel Siebert, a pioneering force for women in finance, died Sunday at 84 from complications of cancer. Born September 12, 1928 to a Jewish family in Cleveland, OH, Siebert, known as Mickie, became t...
Prepent 5774: Day 20, Heading Into The Days Of Awe With An Embrace And Appreciation Of Awe Itself 27 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
Journey into the High Holidays with Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Storahtelling and the spiritual leader of Lab/Shul. It’s a daily dose of inspiration to get you focused and ready for the new year, fe...
Barry Manilow’s New Musical 'Harmony' Reimagines a Weimar-Era Song-and-Dance Troupe 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Barry Manilow and his lyricist partner Bruce Sussman have attempted various musicals over the years, including a story based on their hit song Copacabana. In the early 1990s, Sussman saw a documentary...
Why High Holiday Services Are Boring, and How Rabbis and Congregants Can Fix Them 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
High Holiday services are a slog. All right, not at every synagogue, not all the time, not for everybody. But it’s true widely and often enough that most of you are nodding to yourselves. Granted, ser...
Minds Full of Torah, Bowls Full of Sacrificial Blood: Our Literary Critic's Weekly Talmud Reading 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world. Reading Daf Yomi this week, I learned the answer to a question I had been wondering about since starti...
Rockets and Bombings in Lebanon Add Urgency to IDF Training 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Lt. Archie Leonard, an IDF soldier, walks into a vacant house, lifts a metal grate off of the floor, and climbs down a short ladder that leads to a hidden tunnel. I follow him as he walks about 15 yar...
Israelis Getting Gas Masks After Lethal Chemical Attack In Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Horrifying pictures and videos of victims of a chemical weapons attack are pouring out of Syria, where Bashar Assad’s regime is believed to have gassed its own people. Doctors Without Borders has repo...
Read Etgar Keret's First Short Story—The Israeli Writer Published It On Facebook 26 Years Later 27 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
Tablet published an essay by Etgar Keret this morning, in which the Israeli writer recalls writing his first short story, at age 19, and finding someone to read it. Keret, who is known for collected w...
Cultural Indigestion: 'Literally' Gets A New Definition and Miley Cyrus Confuses Everyone 27 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
If you missed the MTV Video Music Awards last night—I didn’t watch, but I wouldn’t say I missed it (wakka wakka)—then you’ve likely been hearing bemused commentary around the water cooler about what h...
Today's News: Typo Sends Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Plummeting; Should European Jews Move Somewhere Else? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
• A trader’s typing error caused one of Israel’s largest corporations to drop 99 percent in value yesterday, bringing the entire Tel Aviv Stock Exchange down several pointskldsfk. [Times of Israel] •...
