ICG's Nathan Thrall talks to Tablet Magazine Plus Egypt goes rogue, Syria and Syrians in crosshairs, and more in the news How Commissioner Bud Selig can remake his legacy and cement his Jewishness  | |  As the curtain rises on the musical Baby It's You!, music critic Jody Rosen discusses its subject, Florence Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife behind the Shirelles and Dionne Warwick In the late 1950s, Florence Greenberg was a housewife in Passaic, N.J., with an itch to get into the music business. A tip from her daughters led her to a quartet of young African-American singers. Under Greenberg's tutelage, the women became the legendary Shirelles, the group behind such hits as "I Met Him on a Sunday" and "Dedicated to the One I Love." Greenberg's name in the business was made. She formed three record labels—Tiara, Scepter, and Wand—and had a hand in the successes of talents including Dionne Warwick and the Isley Brothers. More  | I'd always wanted a tattoo, but believed, following this week's parasha, that it was categorically prohibited. Before making the commitment, I had to wrestle with the text. More |  | This week in Israel: Fatah and Hamas come to an agreement, Palestinian police kill an Israeli worshiper in the West Bank, and the royal wedding raises flags in Modi’in More | |
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