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Music How Janis Ian’s Jewish heritage inspired some of her greatest hits
A new documentary on the singer's life shows the relationship between her faith, her activism, and her songwriting.
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Fast Forward ‘Darkness will fade,’ Yuval Raphael sings in Israel’s Eurovision entry, ‘New Day Will Rise’
The song contains a line from Jewish scripture
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Yiddish World Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever
Musicologist Zisl Slepovitch publishes music recorded in the 1930s in today’s Belarus and Ukraine
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Books How a Jewish daughter’s search to find her parents became a book and a play and a movie
Writer and performer Zara Phillips, author of 'Somebody's Daughter,' has turned her question into art
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Fast Forward Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side
The song, posted Tuesday, has garnered more than 14 million views on X alone
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Music Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport
Lamar’s politically charged halftime show and Dylan’s 1965 Newport performance both upset precedent
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Music Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael to represent Israel in 2025 Eurovision music contest
Raphael got the nod after singing ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” whose lyrics echo the Nova movement’s refrain “We will dance again"
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Music 50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
In 1975, Dylan introduced a whole new way of songwriting
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