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Word of the day / Lehazmin: High time to order takeout turkey
But don't send your 16-year old to pick up the vodka for the cranberry cocktail, lest...
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Nov 27, 2013
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Word of the day / Anglo-Saxim: Camelot of Ra'anana
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Shoshana Kordova
Word of the Day / Gina: Limp lettuce? Denounce it!
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Word of the Day / Sof haderekh
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This Day in Jewish History / The Rabad, sage and critic of Maimonides, dies
12th-century French Jewry was becoming exposed to secular ideas from the world outside, which influenced kabbalist sage Rabbi Abraham Ben David
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David B. Green
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Nov 27, 2013
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08:32 AM
Word of the Day / Sevivon: Who dunnit?
Sevivon definitively means "top," as in spinning toy. But who coined the word? Depends who you ask.
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Elon Gilad
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Nov 26, 2013
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03:34 PM
This day in Jewish history / An unwitting Jew who made robots possible is born
Norbert Weiner, a scion of Maimonides, died before computers had become commonplace, yet anticipated artificial intelligence.
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David B. Green
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Nov 26, 2013
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Does Facebook change the workings of your mind?
A link has been found between students’ number of Facebook friends and the amount of gray matter in their brains. But it’s not clear which is causing which.
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Alumit Ishai
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Nov 26, 2013
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03:25 AM
Hollywood producer opens up about past as Israeli operative
'It was like being a 20-something guy whose country decided to let him be James Bond,' says Arnon Milchan.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer
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Nov 26, 2013
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Israel’s anti-Don Draper makes the big leagues
Can the mysteriously super-successful promoter G. Yafit save Channel 10?
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Asher Schechter
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Nov 25, 2013
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This day in Jewish history / A bantamweight soldier and World War I poet is born
'I killed till all my strength was gone,' wrote Isaac Rosenberg: 'And still they rose to torture me, / For Devils only die in fun.'
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David B. Green
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Nov 25, 2013
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Word of the Day / Shavua tov: Getting your week off to a good start
Israelis use this greeting starting Saturday night, when the Sabbath ends and the sacred transitions to profane.
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Shoshana Kordova
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Nov 25, 2013
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This Day in Jewish History / Europe's first secular Jew is born
Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza was banned by the Jewish community of Amsterdam for his allegedly heretical views on God and religion.
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David B. Green
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Nov 24, 2013
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05:06 AM
Word of the Day / Yom tov: Good days don't have to be holidays
This phrase helps distinguish festival days from regular days, but has also become a day-to-day greeting.
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Shoshana Kordova
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Nov 24, 2013
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Word of the day / Herzl: Simon says found a state
The founder of modern Zionism has lent his name to a children’s game - and a type of balcony.
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Shoshana Kordova
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Nov 22, 2013
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This Day in Jewish History / Comedian who didn't 'get no respect' is born
Funny man Rodney Dangerfield kicked off his one-liners about his life as a loser with those famous words.
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David B. Green
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Nov 22, 2013
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On a Jerusalem mountaintop, Kennedy’s memory pierces the silence
The Yad Kennedy memorial was unveiled three years after the assassination of the American president, who was murdered in Dallas exactly 50 years ago.
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Mordechai I. Twersky
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Nov 22, 2013
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Word of the Day / Klementina: The fruit named for a French missionary in Algeria
Clementines were named for Father Clement Rodier, who tended an orphanage's citrus trees and accidentally created the juicy little fruits.
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Elon Gilad
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Nov 21, 2013
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03:16 PM
Did Hollywood bigwigs help Israel buy arms in the 1970s and '80s?
Longtime Hollywood film producer Arnon Milchan says they did, in an interview set to air Monday on the Israeli investigative journalism program 'Uvda.'
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Nov 21, 2013
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