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Toronto restaurant owner Kimberly Hawkins is defiantly anti-Semitic as her business crumbles around her
Toronto restaurant owner Kimberly Hawkins is defiantly anti-Semitic as her business crumbles around her
Trump evangelical allies embroiled in lawsuit over Holocaust survivor charity project
Mike Evans is suing Pastor Jentezen Franklin in a dispute over money raised to build a food kitchen for Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem.
Dylan’s latest really is his best since ‘Blood on the Tracks’
The sense that the album is really one long song is an essential part of its appeal to me. In this time of quarantine, days blend one into the next.
Dylan’s best since ‘Blood on the Tracks?’ You’re asking the wrong question
I could care less what anybody, myself included, thinks are the best 10 Rolling Stones songs, Emily Dickinson poems, or Philip Roth novels.
In my life, there were two Bob Dylans — my father’s and mine
When “Time Out Of Mind” came out, for the very first time I heard Bob Dylan with my own soul.
In a hellish landscape of Huey Lewis and Liza Minelli, a new Dylan album thankfully arrived
After three straight studio records where he’d sounded distracted or disinterested, he emerged from the fog with a renewed sense of focus and purpose.
Why no Dylan album will ever surpass ‘Stormy Season’
“These songs — harsh yet brooding; serious yet funny — were miles away from the haunted nostalgia of Dylan’s most-recent collections of folk songs.”
Dylan painted his masterpiece — the next year he painted another one
I went back and listened to all 17 studio albums Dylan has released since “Blood on the Tracks.” It was not an unpleasant way to spend a few days.
The best Dylan comeback album featured no Dylan songs at all
Dylan’s “Good As I Been to You” was dumb and callow. But “World Gone Wrong,” another album of covers, cut to the bone.
‘Will men keep explaining Dylan to me into eternity?’
“My interest in Dylan has been big and bright and transformative. But that genuine interest also brought complicity with men.”
Dylan’s latest album comes at a time when we need it most
The Dylan oeuvre is not a collection of albums; it’s an ongoing expression of our collective unconscious.
Life, death, heartbreak, disillusionment — Dylan’s first album as an old man
The narrator is no longer Robert Zimmerman of Malibu, California, but some kind of timeless, archetypal blues man, headed for another joint.
The 16 customers you’ll meet at the Zabar’s lox counter
Zabar’s! Crossroads of the world! For every customer, there are an infinite number of stories. Here are just a few of them.
50 shades of unconditional longing in a tale of erotic obsession
Daphne Merkin’s “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love” is an erotic, metafictional tale of female submission.
Netanyahu admits Israel reopened ‘too soon’ after surge of COVID diagnoses
Facing a surge in coronavirus cases and mounting public anger over the economic fallout, the prime minister took responsibility for the decision.
Julian Edelman spoke with DeSean Jackson about educating each other after anti-Semitic posts
Jackson, a Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, posted about Hitler and Farrakhan on social media.
The extraordinary artistic devotion of Ida Haendel
If you heard Ida Haendel play violin once, you knew her tone anywhere: the shuddery, overwhelming pointedness she gave to any piece of music.
Over 120 Neo-Nazi band pages found active on Facebook
Songs from one group from the Ukraine sample remarks from Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi anthem the “Horst Wessel-Lied.”
‘My conscience is clean;” Dani Dayan speaks about the end of his term
Jodi Rudoren and Andrew Silow-Carroll gave the outgoing Israeli Consul General for New York and exit interview.
The Agony Of The COVID-19 Obituarist
Writing obituaries for the victims of COVID-19 served as a kind of therapy for the bereaved, but it also tore open old wounds.
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