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The Spirit of Rand
By Bob Cook If you were to ask anyone, "Family Feud"-style, what they associate with the Canadian power trio
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The Godfather of Everything That Moves
By Ethan Brown James Brown is the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton the Godfather of Funk, but Mel Cheren is the Godfather
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Rocking the Catskills
By Anya Kamenetz Baruch Atah Adonei Elohenu Melech Ha Olom Ah yeah, that's the holiday . . . that's the Hanukkah
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Naked City
By Ari Abramowitz Photo courtesy Michael Dorf New York was a dump. Hell, that’s why I wanted to go there. Mind
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Have Yourself a Jewish Little Christmas
By Sean Daly Jewish and "Jingle Bells" don’t mix. Every time a pop star with Judeo-Christian claims has
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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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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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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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The Yeshiva of Indie Rock
By Doree Shafrir Adam Brody as Seth Cohen, the quintessential Jewish indie rocker At an indie rock show I was at a
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The Situationist
By Craig Bromberg Malcolm McLaren, Jewish? What were you expecting, bubeleh—a Scotsman in a kilt? Can you imagine the fury of
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The Holy Trinity of Brooklyn Rock
By Jonathan Karp Barry Manilow. Photo courtesy Carol Marshall. In 1982, as a college freshman, I took the socially precarious risk of
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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’