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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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Is This Comic Book Holocaust Survivor Being Turned Into A Nazi?
Generally, it’s bad form to suggest Holocaust survivors are Nazis. And yet, Marvel comics appears prepared to do just that. On a recent cover, Magneto, the X-Men supervillain, is depicted as belonging to the evil Nazi-analog organization Hydra. Magneto is canonically a Holocaust survivor. His experience at Auschwitz led him to lose faith in humanity;…
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Meet The Collectors Bringing Art Nouveau To Israel
Art collector Anat Meidan came into a grainy focus over Google video, framed against a well-stocked bookshelf. Behind her, her house in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neve Tzedek looked airy and bright. Her husband Joe sat in on our interview, a large Art Nouveau poster hanging on the wall above his head. Art Nouveau…
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Jewish Philanthropist Establishes Kansas City As Cultural Mecca
When he would go to New York on art-buying excursions with his late wife, Marion, Henry Bloch would balk at the price tags. “It was very expensive,” the 94-year-old H&R Block founder and philanthropist said. “They talked me into it.” Asked what he meant by “very expensive,” Bloch repeated, “Very expensive.” Bloch was on hand…
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A Tale Of Madness, Murder, And Mathematics
There’s a well-known formula for creating a juicy story known as “The Three M’s” – murder, madness, and mathematics. Okay, so maybe not, but there is at least one story around that satisfies both the “juicy” and “three M’s” categories: the story of Andre Bloch (which first came to my attention via the blog of Dr….
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One Of New York’s Most Liberal Rabbis Walked Around As A Trump Supporter For A Day: This Is His Story
The bride squinted at my red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, then looked me in the eye. “Do you really like Trump?” To which I replied, “Are you really a bride?” She pouted, turning her head away as her mother started laughing. “Honey, it’s a costume, he’s kidding, it’s Purim, right?” she explained to…
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50 Cover Versions Of ‘Stardust’ That Are Better Than Bob Dylan’s — And Three That Aren’t
Pardon us for not losing our minds with excitement over Bob Dylan’s much-praised new recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” which was released late last week as a preview of Triplicate, his three-album set of American standards that’s due out at the end of March. Sure, Dylan has long earned the right to do whatever the…
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Why Aren’t There More Jewish Superheroes?
‘Marvel, Please Cast an Asian-American as Iron Fist,” Keith Chow wrote at the Nerds of Color site three years ago when Netflix first announced plans for the series, which debuts March 17. Marvel didn’t listen; Finn Jones, who is white, plays the title role in “Iron Fist.” This is disappointing, but not exactly unexpected. The…
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Preserving Ladino As ‘Act Of Resistance’ Against Trump
(JTA) — One-year-old Vidal doesn’t know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but not that the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach him what served as the lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years. And he doesn’t…
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Comedy Is Easy, Dying Is Hard
‘I don’t want to be buried in Jersey,” my husband quipped the first time I raised the issue of an exit plan. We’re comedy writers, and though I had always enjoyed Martin’s jokes, I needed him to take this seriously. “Where do you want to be?” I asked. “Here,” he answered. “I plan on staying…
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Hitler Painting To Be Exhibited In Italian ‘Museum Of Madness’
Visitors to the Museo di Salo, in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, might face something of a shock in the next several months. In an exhibit titled “Museum of Madness,” opening on March 11, a painting by Adolf Hitler will occupy the gallery, alongside works by well-regarded artists like Francisco de Goya and Francis…
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Brick By Brick, Architect Louis Kahn Gets The Biography He Deserves
You Say To Brick: The Life Of Louis Kahn By Wendy Lesser Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $30 The Estonian-born, Philadelphia-based architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974) remains a strong presence in his adopted city. Near his Washington Square West home, a pocket park bears his name. Residents still point out the Walnut Street office…
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