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Barbra Streisand, Harry Richman Enter National Recording Registry
Barbra Streisand’s take on Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s “People,” immortalized in the 1968 film “Funny Girl,” and Harry Richman’s take on Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” are among this year’s inductees to the National Recording Registry. As Billboard reported, each year the Registry selects 25 songs or albums to be preserved by the…
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WATCH: Trailer For Mensch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel”
The 2016 election has, so far, not turned out well for the climate: Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order initiating the unraveling of much of President Obama’s progressive legacy on climate change. But that election might do some long-term good for climate change awareness — or so, at least, hopes former Vice President and…
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Melvin Waskin Aimed To Educate, On Everything From Dating To The Science Of Catastrophe
Most of the people whose lives Melvin Waskin touched likely never knew his name, and that was ok. A longtime writer and producer for Coronet Instructional Media, the educational films whose scripts he penned taught students about everything from the solar system to how to date. If you recently identified a planet correctly, or chose…
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These Are The 7 Jewish Baseball Players To Watch In 2017
You have to admit that this is a good time for Jews in baseball. On the field, Team Israel’s strong showing was the talk of the World Baseball Classic. Meanwhile, Ian Kinsler played a key role on the U.S. team. While Alex Bregman had limited duty for the U.S., the star watch is on for…
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Mahler Sheet Music Borrowed By Leonard Bernstein Returns To Vienna — Finally
The composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein may have been a genius, but he was, apparently, fickle with other people’s belongings. As The New York Times’s Michael Cooper reported, Bernstein borrowed a copy of Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” — “The Song of the Earth,” a song cycle for tenor and alto or tenor…
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How Knitting Made My Grandmother A Grandma
I was having lunch with my good friend Myra the other day. All we could talk about was the upcoming birth of her first grandchild. We were both so thrilled, but the conversation came to a dead halt when I said, “You must be so excited to finally soon have someone call you grandma”. Silence….
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How The Forward Covered The Death Of Emmett Till
The following article was published on September 8, 1955 — a little more than a week after the murder of Emmett Till. 50 Thousand Chicago Negroes Come View Corpse of Murdered Boy Chicago, Sept. 8–Relatives of 14-year old Negro boy Emmet Till, murdered by two White men on a farm in Mississippi, today told of…
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Some Surprising Jewish Authors Are Guiding Defense Secretary James Mattis
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has, to put it lightly, a very big job. Unlike certain members of the administration he serves, he’s a dedicated reader; luckily for us, that means we have insight into exactly which thinkers are influencing Mattis’s decision-making — which, of course, affects us all. In an excerpt of “The Leader’s…
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Behold: The Worst Jewish Album Covers Of All Time
Here’s a hot take for you: one of the most influential aesthetic movements of the past 10 years has been the proliferation of “Christian Kitsch.” Looking through this list of “Awkward Christian Music Album Covers” published on Sad and Useless it’s easy find its aesthetic counterpart in the world of public access television. The two…
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TV Icon Norman Lear To Appear On ‘The Simpsons’
For Norman Lear, the legendary creator and producer behind some of television’s most formative comedies — “All in the Family,” “One Day at a Time,” and “The Jeffersons,” to name only a few — there are few Hollywood trophies yet to be won. He’s about to claim one of them: A guest spot on “The…
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What Do You Do When You Come Face To Face With The Spanish Inquisition?
“Nobody,” the Monty Python skit goes, “expects the Spanish Inquisition,” and the same goes for visitors to the Prado Museum in Madrid. Turning a corner on the second floor, viewers come face-to-face with Emilio Sala Francés’ 1889 painting “The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.” In the picture, a lavishly-dressed Jewish emissary has laid a…
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