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Sundown: Syria Faces Upheaval

Plus Mrs. God, and more

by
Marc Tracy
March 18, 2011
Pro-regime protesters in Syria. Cool dudes.(-/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-regime protesters in Syria. Cool dudes.(-/AFP/Getty Images)

• Unrest in Syria. [WP]

• God had a wife. Yes, that God. [Discovery News]

• Tablet Magazine contributing editor Eddy Portnoy has a children’s treasury of Yiddish fight terms. [Shtetl Montreal]

• Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is interested in a New York City satellite campus. [NYT]

• iGrogger [iTunes]

• Contributing editor Vanessa Davis’s workspace is at least as wonderful as you’d suspect. [From the desk of …]

• The doll that got a bar mitzvah. [The Daily]

According to contributor Jody Rosen, 100 years ago today Irving Berlin—one of the heroes of David Lehman’s A Fine Romance—received a copyright for “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.