Seth Rogovoy, a contributing editor at the Forward, is the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet (Scribner) and Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford University Press).
Seth Rogovoy
By Seth Rogovoy
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Culture Your Jewish guide to the Grammy nominations
Music is not like baseball. With the latter, you choose a favorite team and stick with it through its ups and downs over the years. (Believe me, as a lifelong, beleaguered fan of the New York Met, I know of what I speak.) With the former, however, if the diverse and all-encompassing Grammy Award nominations…
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Culture How Leonard Cohen’s messianic childhood prepared him for a sort of priesthood
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years. by Michael Posner Simon & Schuster, 496 pages, $30 We already know that rock poet Leonard Cohen was a profoundly Jewish songwriter and a deeply spiritual man. But a new oral biography, “Leonard Cohen — Untold Stories: The Early Years” (Simon & Schuster), by Michael Posner, recounts in…
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Elvis Costello
The first words Elvis Costello sings on his new album, “Hey Clockface” (Concord Records), are “I got no religion, I got no philosophy.” While the 66-year-old self-described “lapsed Catholic” might not adhere to any doctrine or creed, he has — like his father before him — enjoyed a storied career collaborating with Jewish artists. And…
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Film & TV Remembering Sean Connery with the secret Jewish history of James Bond
James Bond's Jewish roots are evident everywhere from "Dr. No" to "Skyfall"
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Culture On his new album, Bruce Springsteen plays the rock ‘n’ roll rebbe
There is a point in “Letter to You,” the new film documenting the making of the new album by the same name, when Bruce Springsteen dons his prophetic cloak and declares: I dwell in a house of a thousand dreams…. We’re not been made perfect by God, but here I try to speak in the…
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Culture Trump should know better than to mess with Lesley Stahl
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, President Donald Trump reportedly stormed out of a room at the White House after “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl asked him some questions he thought were mean. As one White House staffer told the Washington Post, “The interview was not that bad…. She just had a tone he didn’t…
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Culture How ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ changed Mariah Carey’s life
Mariah Carey’s new memoir is called “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” (Andy Cohen Books/Henry Holt). Whether or not a reader comes away with a deeper understanding of what Mariah Carey “means” probably depends upon the reader and his or her definition of “meaning.” Any reader, on the other hand, cannot help but grab onto some…
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Culture Lenny Kravitz pays loving tribute to his Jewish grandparents — and their kasha varnishkes
Who said, “I was just a happy-go-lucky kid hanging out in my grandma’s kitchen eating kasha varnishkes”? Uncle Solly? Your mother? Me? (Well, yes, but never mind that.) Would you believe: self-professed hippie-stoner rock star Lenny Kravitz? Because that’s just one of many of the heymish memories the multiple Grammy Award-winning rock artist and producer…
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