Ben Ehrlich
By Ben Ehrlich
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Israel News Ferry: Antisemitic? ‘Ludicrous!’
British musician Bryan Ferry, founder and lead vocalist of the art-rock group Roxy Music, is known for his smooth visual and vocal style. His clumsy tongue, however, has recently been giving the 1970s icon headaches: In a March interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Ferry professed admiration for the Nazi aesthetic. “My God, the…
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News Playing Politics
Although former president Bill Clinton fooled around with, among other things, a tenor saxophone, politics and music are nonetheless strange bedfellows. But Danny Ross doesn’t care. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter, who just released his first album, “Introducing Danny Ross!” also works as a staffer for New York City Congressman Jerrold Nadler. “I run the office operations,”…
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Israel News Dr. Bronner’s Soapy History
Emanuel Bronner, creator of the company Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, was not your typical boardroom suit. Third-generation soap-maker, escaped mental patient and son of Orthodox Jews and Holocaust victims, Bronner, who died in 1997, is the subject of a new documentary, “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox,” and in the film, the only suit Bronner wears is…
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Israel News Passport to Tel Aviv
With its “Tel Aviv ‘Wallpaper’ City Guide,” Phaidon Press admits the young Jewish city into the old boy’s club of international metropolitan travel destinations. And although the guide praises Tel Aviv’s modernity, it reveals in its introduction a surprise at the city’s sophistication, a theme that resurfaces constantly throughout the book. The city is measured…
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