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Remembering Kinky Friedman, the only country star who bought his clothes from Hadassah
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How my story about Nazi-looted art inspired an opera by one of America’s greatest composers
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A pioneering Jewish rock band got its start in 1965; they’re still slowly and steadily turtling along
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