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Bob Dylan

Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFilm

The Oscar race: Bob Dylan and László Tóth face the limits of Jewish reinvention

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 5, 2025February 5, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” audiences are confronted with a […]

Bob Dylan was among the artists who recorded "We Are the World" in 1985. (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Stevie Wonder’s impression of Bob Dylan is highlight of ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 5, 2024February 6, 2024
Drake wearing an oversized leather, shearling-lined coat on a balcony overlooking a busy city street
Posted inCelebrity Jews

No Eurovision win for Israel; Drake upstaged by toddler; Dylan turns 80; Judge Judy retires; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 25, 2021May 25, 2021
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sept. 17, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Matt Winkelmeyer-Getty Images)
Posted inTV

Scarlett Johansson gets hitched; Bob Dylan on antisemitism; Patinkin serenades voting phone bankers; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 10, 2020November 16, 2020
The cover art for Bob Dylan's new album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways," features a 1964 photo of an underground black nightclub in London.
Posted inUncategorized

Everything is broken, and Bob Dylan is back to sing about it in new album

Paul Wilner by Paul Wilner June 19, 2020June 23, 2020
Drake gets comfy in an armchair
Posted inCelebrity Jews

The Jews go to the Grammys, 2019 edition

by Nate Bloom February 7, 2019
Jack Antonoff for wrote and co-produced “Melodrama,” an album by singer Lorde that is nominated for album of the year. (Photo/Flickr-Ralph Arvesen CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

The Jews go to the Grammys, 2018 edition

by Nate Bloom January 22, 2018March 23, 2018
dylan with harmonica
Posted inColumns, Jewish Life, Torah

‘Forever Young’: A heartfelt hymn of fatherly trust

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer June 1, 2017June 2, 2017
dylan with harmonica
Posted inColumns, Passover, Holidays, Jewish Life, Torah

Bob Dylan, the messiah and personal redemption

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer April 7, 2017April 6, 2017
Bayer singing and playing mandolin
Posted inColumns, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life

‘Americana Jam Band’ service turns Shabbat into sing-along

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 1, 2017February 4, 2017

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