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).
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By Seth Rogovoy
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Culture That time Bob Dylan played Elijah the prophet in an underrated Western — and did a better job than you might think
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The career of the legendary founder of the Velvet Underground was filled with Jewish references and collaborators
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The secret Jewish history of Paul McCartney
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The veteran comic actor's eponymous TV show was the brainchild of Carl Reiner and bears a passing resemblance to 'Seinfeld'
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Music She ain’t no Dylan Thomas or Patti Smith, this ain’t her ‘Blood on the Tracks,’ but Taylor Swift certainly ain’t no ‘modern idiot’ either
On her latest album, Swift wrestles biblically with the plight of being a tortured poet
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Tax Day
Turns out that the history of income tax goes all the way back to the book of Genesis
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With and without Raspberries, Eric Carmen, who died at age 74, was a power-pop pioneer
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Culture The secret Jewish history of pi
The relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference was originally mentioned in the Hebrew Book of Kings
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