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And how can there be Yankees without Jews?
by Spencer Ackerman You can make the case that the defining episodes in Philip Roth novels all involve masturbation, either into chopped
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The Ballad of Curly Oxide
By David Segal This American Life is re-airing the story of Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill this weekend, and if you’
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Where's the Jewish reggaeton?
by Spencer Ackerman I haven't heard this guy Mitsubishi--you know, the Hasidic reggae singer--but that's never
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Twice in a Lifetime
by Spencer Ackerman If I may propose a solution to the problem of moving 9,000 fanatics out of Gaza: Buy them
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Not every Jew rocks as hard as he'd like to, or as hard as other Jews
by Spencer Ackerman I learned this lesson at a young age when growing up in Brooklyn. Hi, Jew-rockers: Spencer Ackerman here
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That Land Is Your Land
By Paul Farhi Arlo Guthrie Arlo Guthrie remembers his boyhood Hebrew tutor as "a sweet guy, a nice guy." Every
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Not by himself
by Izzy Grinspan This week’s Village Voice music section has articles about not one but two newly relevant Jewish rock stars
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Name game
by Izzy Grinspan "Institute" sounds to me like a German post-rock DJ collective, but it's the name
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The Jews of Christian rock
by Izzy Grinspan The “Jewish” in “Jewish rock” means something totally different from the “Christian” in “Christian rock.” When we talk about
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Talmud
By Mark Caro (Reprinted with permission from Passing Stone magazine) It’s Saturday night at the packed Mogen David Center, and the
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First Bob Dylan does a Victoria's Secret commercial, and now this
by Kara Baskin Rolling Stone, once the anti-corporate vanguard of underground style, is now allegedly modeling itself after Donald Trump. This
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No love for Dave Grohl
by Izzy Grinspan There’s no Courtney Love character in “Last Days,” the new Gus Van Sant movie about the suicide of