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Fast Forward Kanye West’s album with antisemitic lyric and long list of famous collaborators on track to debut Friday
The album seems headed for a large audience on most major streaming platforms, despite his months in the spotlight over antisemitic comments
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Music How a Brooklyn-born Beatles fan named Elliot Steinberg became a rock ’n’ roll legend
In the 1970s, Elliot Easton joined a band called The Cars — and the rest is history
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Culture Leonard Bernstein was far more Jewish than you’d know from ‘Maestro’
The composer and conductor's Judaism is core to his music, and his life
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Yiddish World Love triangles and arias abound in this reconstructed 1911 Yiddish comic operetta
‘Shir Hashirim: The Song of Love’ returns to New York, where it premiered over a century ago, on Monday, Dec. 11
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Fast Forward Israeli peace activist and ex-politician is now a songwriter with a message: ‘Children need to be home’
Stav Shaffir invited Israel's worried mothers to help with a music video about the hostages. The next day, 120 women showed up
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Fast Forward The world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band accidentally picked a wild moment to make their debut
Instead of sowing divisions within the group, the Israel-Hamas war has seemed to strengthen the bonds in as1one
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Music That Bob Dylan album everybody hated 50 years ago is actually better than you’d think
Though not a masterpiece, 1973's 'Dylan' is at heart, just a collection of good-time jams
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Yiddish World Klezmer star Daniel Kahn to receive the 2023 ‘Dreaming in Yiddish Award’
The award, in memory of the inspirational singer and activist Adrienne Cooper, will be presented at the Yiddish New York Festival.
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Yiddish בער קאָטלערמאַן געווינט די י. י. סיגאַל פּרעמיע פֿאַר זײַן בוך דערציילונגען „סאַמאָיעד“Ber Kotlerman wins J. I Segal award for his collection of stories, ‘Samoyed’
די העלדן אין דער זאַמלונג זענען אוקראַיִנער ייִדן וואָס לײַדן פֿון אַ שווער לעבן אָבער בלײַבן פֿאָרט לײַטיש.
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Film & TV Hermann Goering’s personal art dealer plundered the world for decades; his victims’ descendants are still seeking justice
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Opinion I’m a Jewish parent and biblical scholar in Houston — I’m enraged that Texas is adopting this biblically illiterate new curriculum
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