• 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.