Tracking Leonard Cohen’s peripatetic trail around the world while researching her magisterial Cohen biography “I’m Your Man” inevitably led Sylvie Simmons to Montreal, where she sat down with the elderly rabbi emeritus of the historic synagogue that Cohen’s grandfather helped build. “The rabbi was about 90 years old and had these great white eyebrows. It…
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Celebrity Jews
'Black Widow' rakes it in; Baseball gets even Jewish-er; etc.
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Keitel does Lansky; Jurnee joins the Academy; etc.
A gangster and a Jew Harvey Keitel, 82, is taking on the role of gangster Meyer Lansky, the “mob’s accountant” who oversaw and ran crime rackets from…
Film
'Kaddish for Bernie Madoff': Avant-garde film says a unique farewell
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Music
Sunnyvale sabra scores another pandemic YouTube hit
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Music
At Graceland, grave marker honors Elvis' complicated Jewish heritage
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Orthodox mom 'Ninja Warrior'; Jake Gyllenhaal grilled by children; etc.
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Art
Palo Alto JCC unveils ‘mind-blowing’ musical sculpture
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Celebrity Jews
Shatner on Nimoy; Jamie Lee Curtis rebuilds Hungarian shul; etc.
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