Police open investigation after Amy Winehouse statue is defaced with pro-Palestinian sticker
Winehouse frequently performed wearing a Star of David medallion. The Palestinian flag sticker covered the Star of David on her statue
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Fast Forward 10 Jewish Amy Winehouse moments (and photos) from a new book on her life
From bar mitzvahs to Jewish songs to her connection to Mark Ronson, her producer and a fellow English Jew
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Music Tony Bennett’s 10 greatest songs by Jewish songwriters
Irving Berlin and the Gershwins were among the many immortalized by the legendary singer
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Music Are Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan the best singers of all time — or the best Jewish singers?
On Rolling Stone's latest list of 200, a minyan of Jewish vocalists
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The Schmooze A Hologram Of Amy Winehouse Will Headline A World Tour
Amy Winehouse, the beloved British-Jewish R&B performer, died in 2011. In 2019, she’ll go on a world tour. As a hologram. Now how is it that a woman who couldn’t even get it together to convince Valerie to come on over found the means to walk back death, reanimate, and hatch a plan to travel…
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Culture The Real Amy Winehouse Surfaces In New Photo Book
When we imagine Amy Winehouse, the late and troubled singer-songwriter of “Rehab,” we may imagine her jet-black bouffant or her severe eyeliner. A new photo book, out in August from Taschen, appears to challenge and, at times, reinforce that image. Simply titled “Amy Winehouse,” the book seeks to strip away the patina of makeup to…
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Life Amy Winehouse Foundation to Open Home for Female Addicts
On the fifth anniversary of the death of singer Amy Winehouse, a foundation in her memory will open a home for female addicts. The half-way house sponsored by the Amy Winehouse Foundation will be called Amy’s Place, after the six-time Grammy Award winner and will house up to 16 residents. It will help the recovering…
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Culture How Amy Winehouse Risked Everything To Try To Change the World
Without the tattoos, Amy Winehouse was like the Jewish girl I kissed behind a plywood cutout of film actor Spencer Tracy as we walked back from a Saturday morning film show at the Gaumont Cinema along Albert Street, where I once lived in north London’s Camden Town district. This memory of my youth was one…
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