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The Jackson connection: Shmuley B.
A few years ago, Michael Jackson and everyone's favorite celeburebbe Shmuley Boteach sat down with a tape recorder to plan
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His Sharona
By John Kelly Photo courtesy of Capitol Records. Doug Fieger is a mensch. It doesn’t matter if I believe that or
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Nothing says "Old Testament" like a Mountain Goat.
This month's issue of the McSweeney's non-fiction mag The Believer comes with a truly excellent complication CD
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Bad for the pseudo-Jews
Rush and Molloy of the New York Daily News report not one but two exposes of kabbalah: "20/20" is
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Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty...
Atlantic City used to be a sort of Valhalla of musicians from the '50s and '60s, where the local oldies
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Heavy Shtetl
By Steve Almond Britny Fox promotional postcard, 1991. I spent a thousand nights as a rock critic in El Paso, Texas, which
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This Yiddish Life
Tune in to This American Life this upcoming weekend for Jewsrock.org founder David Segal’s story about a Hasidic Brooklynite who
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San Fran court upholds Beastie Boys' license to ill.
And now from the neverending file of Jewsrock-related lawsuits: Remember the Beastie Boy's track "Pass the Mic"
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The new true Jew?
"Read the personal story about how God used Mel Gibson's The Passion to show 50 Shekel the arm of
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Handsome Dick's Handsome Chopped Liver
Handsome Dick Manitoba, lead singer of the proto-punk band the Dictators, made this chopped liver for a seder at the home
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Songs of love and hate
On the cover of Danny Cohen's new album, We're All Gunna Die, a bearded fellow plucks the strings
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Six degrees of Jewish rockstars.
OK, we know M.I.A. isn't remotely Jewish -- she compares herself to the PLO, for crying out loud. But,