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Anti-Fascist Warrior-Hairdresser

From a Sephardic orphanage to the Haganah to the hair salon, Vidal Sassoon, who died yesterday at age 84, lived a life worth celebrating. (Read an interview with Sassoon here.)Murder is My Business

Weegee lived opposite NYPD headquarters, and slept most of the day, rising at night to pack flashbulbs into the trunk of his '38 Chevy and prowl the streets looking for bloodstained sidewalks to photograph.The First Book Maurice Sendak Ever Illustrated

The co-author of Atomics for the Millions asked one of his high school students if he would illustrate the volume. The student agreed to do the artwork in exchange for $100 and a passing grade.Witnesses to the Bible?

Two rare 3,000-year-old models of ancient shrines are among the artifacts claimed by an Israeli archeologist as evidence for the historical veracity of the Bible.Site Unsound

Maimonides wrote that "no headstones should be built on [holy men's] graves because their words are their memory." Naturally, Israel is planning to renovate his gravesite to the tune of $10 million and a sky-high laser beam. Emor: More than Kin, and Less than Kind

Torah Talk with Michael Carasik Leviticus tells the priests they must avoid ritual contamination with death—unless the death is that of a close family member. But the text uses a standard Hebrew word in a very unusual way in order to issue this command. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:10:22Nobel Nuggets

There was no Nobel Peace Prize for 1939, because Germany invaded Poland on September 1. (Forty-seven years later, Henry Kissinger would write to Elie Wiesel: "I was not proud of my Nobel, but I am of yours.")Strength in Numbers

What is the Yiddish saying? Nine rabbis cannot daven together, but 10 illiterate shoemakers make a minyan.Taba via Trouble

Disregarding Israel's severe travel warning, one journalist ventures—with his camera—into the Sinai Peninsula. (Photographs)