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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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Short dispatches from the world of Jewish rock & roll, circa 2005.
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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
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OyTunes
by Izzy Grinspan A old anti-Semitic stereotype suggests that Jews maintain their stranglehold on the world by only helping out fellow
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Kinkier and Kinkier
by Izzy Grinspan You've probably seen it by now, but the entire text of Dan Halpern's article on
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The neighborhood, it is a-changin'
by Izzy Grinspan In light of what's going on in Gaza, it seems almost disrespectful to talk about the real
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The Kinkster campaigns for lepers, cats
by Kara Baskin Kinky Friedman is now $45, 612 richer thanks to a lucrative gambling outing in the Big Easy over the
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Back to the future: Why does Jewish grunge exist?
by Izzy Grinspan “Jewish music goes grunge,” the Forward announced last week, introducing readers to the religious band Heedoosh. Listing the band’
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Cute as a kreplach
by Izzy Grinspan Via Gawker, via Proceed at Your Own Risk, via the Forward: gay Jewish rapper Andrew Singer, aka Soce the
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The Jewish case for gentile rock & roll
by Spencer Ackerman On balance, you need to conclude that the late-19th century intellectual architects of Zionism were vindicated. It'
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Anti-Semitism claims the Rolling Stones
by Spencer Ackerman By now, you've surely read about the anti-Bush jeremiad on the Rolling Stones' forthcoming album
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Thank G-d for Nasser
by Spencer Ackerman In the mid-50s, a modern-day Amalek seized power in Egypt. Merging a fierce critique of European colonialism