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Culture How Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Lenny Bruce Changed Judaism Forever
● Jewhooing the Sixties by David E. Kaufman Brandeis University Press, 360 pages, $36 The final week of September 1961 proved to be an auspicious one in American Jewish history — or, at least, in the history of Jewish-American celebrities. Within a matter of just a few days, Sandy Koufax set his first National League…
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan To Receive France’s Legion d’Honneur
PARIS – American singer Bob Dylan may soon be awarded France’s highest distinction, the Legion d’Honneur, after his nomination was reportedly first tossed out over his marijuana use and opposition to the Vietnam War. The green light given by the Legion d’Honneur’s council means France’s minister of culture may soon decorate Dylan — a symbol…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History of David Bowie
David Bowie died of cancer on Sunday after a glittering five-decade career in pop music. The rocker won millions of fans across several generations by constantly reinventing himself, but who knew he had such a strong link to the Tribe? Madonna had nothing on David Bowie when she came out as a devotee of Kabbalah…
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The Schmooze Peter Yarrow and Stav Shaffir Sing Bob Dylan
How many Jews does it take to wish you Happy Passover? Apparently, at least three. Watch Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary team up with Knesset member Stav Shaffir to wish you a Chag Sameach with Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind.”
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan for the 12-Year-Old Set
If Bob Dylan were 12 years old, he’d sound like Ned The Kids Dylan. That’s because Ned The Kids Dylan, a pre-pubescent singer-songwriter from Northhampton, England, sounds an awful lot like the bard with the birth name Robert Zimmerman — only with a voice that hasn’t dropped yet. Ned The Kids Dylan, who tours Great…
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The Schmooze A Bob Dylan Farewell to the Chinatown Bus
Yesterday, we found out that Bob Dylan had been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his “iconic place in the American culture.” Now we have a pretty great example of that iconic status. Over at The New Yorker, Marc Philippe Eskenazi has created an homage to another iconic American institution: The…
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan Inducted Into American Academy
Bob Dylan has become the first rock star to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Because of the multi-disciplinary nature of his work, Dylan will be an honorary inductee, joining such notables as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. “The board of directors considered the diversity of his work and…
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Opinion Jonah Lehrer’s $20K Mea Culpa
‘I’m sorry’ never felt so good — nor paid so handsomely. Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced New Yorker writer who quit his job in July after it was discovered he was recycling his own work, for blog posts, acknowledged his plagiarism and fabrications at a February 12 talk in Miami. It wasn’t just any talk. It…
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