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Post-holiday rock
by Izzy Grinspan Jewsrock is proud to announce its first article by an ordained rabbi: Any Major Dude, an exegesis of the
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Who's Your Mama?
By Emily Yoffe CBS Photo Archive/ Getty Images Entertainment/ Getty Images She’d probably appreciate the joke. Cass Elliot, who had an
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What Grammy Hall would call "a real Jew"
by Izzy Grinspan Annie Hall presents a serious conflict for the Jewish girl. On the one hand, it’s nearly impossible to
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How many Kol Nidres must one man hear before you can call him a Jewish folksinger?
by Izzy Grinspan Those who caught last night’s installment of No Direction Home, PBS’s documentary about Bob Dylan, will note
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Max, replaced?
by Izzy Grinspan Around here, we tend to be more excited about Max Weinberg than Paul Shaffer. This has nothing to do
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Wendy Wasserstein on the Imaginary Piano
What's the first album you ever bought? The Mamas and The Papas - I lived in New York so "California
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Politics and prose
by Izzy Grinspan There was a mysterious e-mail in my inbox today: Chopped Herring Records promising an exclusive track featuring a
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Pop-kabbalah roundup
by Izzy Grinspan From Michael Musto: "Insiders say Madonna's horse is anti-Semitic." Finally! We'd been
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Don't mess with a Jewish girl
by Izzy Grinspan Sharon Osbourne, we love you, and we wouldn’t want you to be anyone other than your feisty self.
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Unfortunate Son
By Kara Baskin Tucker Ranson/ Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but not when
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Miri Ben-Ari conquers the world, piece by piece
by Izzy Grinspan This year’s MTV Video Music Awards will probably be remembered for disasters both natural and man-made: Hurricane
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Art Garfunkel continues to define the word "schlemazel"
by Izzy Grinspan Yahoo reports that Art Garfunkel smokes pot. Poor guy can't catch a break -- this is the second