Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red-Hot Mamas
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Known as the Last of the Red Hot Mamas, Sophie Tucker had a career that began in vaudeville, embraced the new jazz age of the 1920’s and lasted well into the 1960s.
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High Holy Days in a Conservative Synagogue
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By RSA Guest Blogger, August 14, 2013 3:28 pm
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By Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel
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