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qoshe.com | Rich Tenorio
BOSTON, Massachusetts — A 1980s movie buff might remember that the namesake of Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” was Frances Perkins, the US secretary of labor under then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A newly published book shows that Perkins, who died 60 years ago on May 14, was a worthy trailblazer. As labor secretary, she was the first female Cabinet member in a US presidential administration and set a record for longevity in her department.
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2 weeks ago |
timesofisrael.com | Rich Tenorio
BOSTON, Massachusetts — A 1980s movie buff might remember that the namesake of Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” was Frances Perkins, the US secretary of labor under then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A newly published book shows that Perkins, who died 60 years ago on May 14, was a worthy trailblazer. As labor secretary, she was the first female Cabinet member in a US presidential administration and set a record for longevity in her department.
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3 weeks ago |
timesofisrael.com | Jessica Steinberg |Renee Ghert-Zand |Rich Tenorio |Bart P. Schut
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Rich Tenorio
John Urschel lifts the blinds in his second-floor office in the mathematics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Outside is Cambridge in all of its springtime splendor on a mid-April afternoon. Everything about his office says “college professor” – the computer on one side of the desk, the stack of papers on the other, the books on the shelves behind him. He grins through his beard and his eyes sparkle behind his glasses when he describes his research in linear algebra.
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1 month ago |
timesofisrael.com | Rich Tenorio
In 1902, Theodor Herzl published the novel “Altneuland,” or “Old-New Land,” which explicated his vision of Zionism. The founder of the movement envisioned a liberal, cosmopolitan Jewish homeland in what was then Ottoman Palestine. It would be a place where the world’s Jews could take refuge from antisemitic violence elsewhere, filled with publishing houses and other mainstays of elite Old World life.
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