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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Loving and Loathing
A longtime secret treasure of American film criticism, Manny Farber is finally in the limelight, a year after his death of bone cancer at age 91. Farber is being honored with the publication of “Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber,” an 824-page tome from the Library of America, collecting many long-overlooked…
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Not Abel To Hear Cain’s Words
Just what did Cain say to Abel before killing him? Every time we read the first portion of Genesis all over again on the holiday of Simchat Torah, I’m sure many of you ask yourselves the same question. English Bible readers may traditionally have asked it too, but not quite with the same sense of…
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October 16, 2009
100 Years Ago In the Forward The general strike of the neckwear makers was going smoothly, and no violence had occurred. The bosses were going to and from their offices, and it looked like the strike was going to be settled. One shop that was holding out, the Star Neckwear Company — eventually refused to…
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Hopelessly Lost on the Prairie of Existence
From Jonah onwards, the Jews have been happy to write nebbishes into the part of divine liaison. Not for the Chosen People the luxury of a muscular charismatic leader to mediate between the Sacred and the profane. Given the choice between “Woody” Allen Konigsberg and “Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s barely a flicker of thought necessary….
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See Anne Frank Footage Here
We didn’t know how much truth we were telling. This week we ran an article about Francine Prose’s new book on Anne Frank. We entitled Tova Mirvis’s review “Hidden Writer Revealed” because Anne Frank was not only famously hidden from the Nazis but because (certainly according to Prose) her literary talents have also been overshadowed…
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Architect Richard Meier’s Jewish Inspirations
The Newark-born American Jewish architect Richard Meier, who celebrates his 75th birthday on October 12, is being feted with an all-too-brief exhibit, “Meier 75” at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The exhibit is scheduled to end on Meier’s birthday, which shows party pooper planning on the part of the Cooper-Hewitt committee that have chosen to…
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Minnesota Nebbish
They weren’t as bored and uninterested as they were when they won the best picture Oscar for “No Country for Old Men,” but Joel and Ethan Coen weren’t exactly thrilled to be part of a roundtable interview about their latest movie, “A Serious Man.” In the 25 years since their startling film noirish debut with…
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Even This Review Is God
Everything Is God: The Path of Nondual Judaism By Jay Michaelson Trumpeter, 304 pages, $17.95. Jay Michaelson is well known to readers of the Forward for his column, “The Polymath,” a title well chosen to mitigate the frequent changes in his byline, which varied from dot-com software designer, to doctoral student in Jewish mysticism, to…
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Drawn to The Beat of a Generation
The Beats: A Graphic History Written by Harvey Pekar, et al. Illustrated by Ed Piskor, et al. Edited by Paul Buhle When Samuel Johnson was asked to join a venture to reprint English poets from Chaucer to the present, most of them major and some minor, it was at first a commercial effort. The London…
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On Adorno On Music
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928–1962 By Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Wieland Hoban Seagull Books, 492 pages, $29.00. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was a philosopher only after he was a composer, as if the music he made in his youth required an entire system, and a later age, of interpretation. There was a method to…
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Why We Don’t Say Shanath Tovath
James A. Goldman writes from Brooklyn: “In this holiday season, I have noticed increasingly that one sees printed ‘Shana Tova’ instead of what I remember as ‘Shanah Tovah,’ even though the latter is more in keeping with the Hebrew orthography, which has a heh at the end of each word. I have also seen the…
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