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Opinion On Bob Dylan’s Birthday, 4 Israeli Artists Reminisce
In honor of Bob Dylan’s 73rd birthday on Saturday (May 24), Maariv asked four Israeli singer-songwriters — Eran Tzur, Sun Tailor, Dan Toren and Uzi Ramirez — to write about the “defining moment” in Dylan’s influence on them personally “as musicians, artists and listeners.” Each brief contribution is accompanied by a musical clip that the…
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News When Meyer Lansky Fell in Love with a Holocaust Survivor
● I Pity the Poor Immigrant: A Novel By Zachary Lazar Little, Brown and Company, 256 pages, $25 In photographs from my high school years, I’m often blinking against the light. My smile and shut eyes look like an evasion of the camera’s flash, of the picture itself. Looking now at that face, I imagine…
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan’s ‘Rolling Stone’ Manuscript For Sale
Bob Dylan’s four-page original manuscript for “Like a Rolling Stone” – considered to be one of the greatest rock songs ever – is expected to fetch $1 million to $2 million when it is put on auction in June, Sotheby’s said on Thursday. Also for sale in the “Presley to Punk” auction in New York…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan ‘Hate Speech’ Case Tossed
A civil court in Paris dismissed a case of incitement to hatred against American singer Bob Dylan for remarks he made in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine. Dylan appeared to compare Croats to Nazis in the article, which was published in Rolling Stone in September 2013 and was republished the following month by the…
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Opinion Passover Concert Part 2: Exile, Redemption & Math
I was hoping to post Part 2 of the Passover concert before the first Seder and then log off for yomtov, but cleaning the oven took longer than I expected (don’t ask). So here it is. We’ve got some Psalms, some spirituals, some memories of Jerusalem and some visions of the Messianic Era. This time…
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Culture What’s More American Than Bob Dylan — and Super Bowl Car Ad?
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” people who don’t know much about Bob Dylan have said, in response to his surprising, patriotic Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler. To them, Dylan is still someone he never was: a Sixties icon, a protest singer who would never sell out. “Sad, sad, sad,” moaned one of my Facebook…
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The Schmooze 6 Lessons From This Year’s Jewish Super Bowl Ads
Well, the Super Bowl has come and gone. It’s time for the take-away: The Broncos really need a hug. Bruno Mars was meh. This was possibly the most Jewish Super Bowl of all time. If the whole SodaStream/Scarlett Johansson debate, and the availability of a game-time knish (for a whopping $6, mind you) didn’t tip…
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Culture Why Bob Dylan’s Interactive Video Is a Sign Of Things To Come
Bob Dylan’s classic hit “Like A Rolling Stone” came out in 1965, but only got a music video in 2013. Israeli director Vania Heymann and interactive video company Interlude created an interactive video for the song (full disclosure: I had a small part in the production of the video). In the video, the viewer is…
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