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At 80, is Bob Dylan still the voice of his generation?
Because I have a somewhat morbid outlook on life combined with an almost fanatical devotion toward being prepared — a vestige of my year or so in the ranks of the Boy Scouts? — I have been toying with the idea of writing Bob Dylan’s obituary in advance of his actual death for at least…
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Music How Jewish is Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah?’
A Forward investigation in 9 verses
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For Albert Camus, events in Gaza would have seemed all too familiar
The situation was impossibly precarious and a solution seemed practically impossible. Two communities, one composed of indigenous Arabs and the other of mostly European immigrants, laid claim to the same swathe of arid hinterland and Mediterranean coastline. Fragile coexistence had given way to fratricidal conflict; one side mobilized technological advantages and the other employed terrorist…
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Don’t reduce Louise Bourgeois’s art to an Oedipus complex
Louise Bourgeois did not trust words; this is what numerous articles and essays about the artist will tell you. That fact is also mentioned at “Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter,” a new exhibit at the Jewish Museum, which shows more than 50 of the French-born artist’s works alongside pages and pages of musings and notes she…
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Have social media giants been censoring posts about Israel and Gaza?
Almost as fast as social media posts about Israel and Gaza began multiplying, so too did complaints of censorship from both sides. Posts were identified as hate speech and taken down; influencers insisted that they had been shadow-banned — a term for when a user’s posts are left up but the algorithm does not show…
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When a family is separated by 200 meters — and the occupation
This is the nightly ritual that lies at the heart of “200 Meters.” Mustafa, the film’s fatherly protagonist, steps onto his balcony and flicks the light switch on and off. From their bedroom in a nearby apartment building, his three young children can see the lights flashing, and they eagerly reply in kind. These two…
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Charles Grodin, beloved grump and talk show guest from hell, dies at 86
The 'Beethoven' and 'Midnight Run' star was a man of many talents
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The unforgettable concert that history somehow forgot
In mid-1980s South Africa, Nelson Mandela was still languishing in prison, and the now-ruling African National Congress was a banned movement. Many people were held in detention, while anti-government activists in the townships engaged in violent confrontations with the security forces. Acts of sabotage were commonplace and thousands of young white men were expected, under…
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Is ‘hot-desking’ our future? Ask a Manager weighs in on the future of work
I cook something from scratch for lunch most days — quickly sauteing some vegetables to throw over pasta, or reviving leftovers with a fried egg and some experimental sauce. It’s never anything particularly gourmet, yet it’s one of the little luxuries of working from home that I am loath to relinquish. Of course, it hasn’t…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says “Jewish lives matter,” and then posts a Soros conspiracy theory
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had a storied pre-Congress career spreading lies about Rothschild-funded space lasers, tweeted in support of Jewish lives Monday night and just this morning trotted out a Jewish conspiracy theory. Both tweets were bad in distinct, but non-mutually exclusive ways. “Jewish lives matter,” Greene replied to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who…
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John Oliver draws praise and condemnation for his segment on conflict in Gaza
John Oliver is no stranger to upsetting people — I mean, he upset the city of Danbury so much they named a sewage plant after him. But on Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver took his own trademark Etonian anger to the Levant, accusing Israel of war crimes in their response to rocket fire…
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