Lisa Loeb’s Album for Pandemic Times: ‘A Simple Trick to Happiness’
Erin Ben-Moche
August 11, 2020
Loeb connects people during a time of isolation with upbeat acoustic melodies and calming, feel-good vibes.
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Nikki Yanofsky Talks ‘Black Sheep’ Album Release and Life During Coronavirus
Darren Paltrowitz
March 30, 2020
Thrilling days of yesteryear
Jonathan Kirsch
June 11, 2014
Nothing links the three books described below except that each, in its own way, is so charming that I couldn’t resist opening it up and, having done so, couldn’t put it down.
Putting the ‘Pop’ back into soda pop
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2011
At the dawn of the 20th century, the British royals were privy to a spiffy new system for infusing drinking water with carbon dioxide bubbles. It would take 53 years for SodaStream to reach commoners, and another 42 until it was acquired by an Israeli distributor and transformed into an international DIY product called Soda Club.
MUSIC VIDEO Lauren Rose – ‘Hava Nagila Baby Let’s Dance’
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2008
It didn\’t make Britain\’s Top Ten Christmas records, but it\’s still a killer version: Lauren Rose sings \’Hava Nagila\’ like you\’ve never heard it — or danced it — before!
P. F. Sloan: does he still believe we’re on the ‘Eve of Destruction’?
Steven Rosen
September 21, 2006
\”Eve of Destruction\” by P. F. Sloan.
Spectator – A Musical Trek to Israel
George Robinson
April 27, 2006
For 2,000 years, Jewish music has been a hybrid compounded of elements picked up from our neighbors. Salamone Rossi created Italian Baroque settings of Hebrew texts. Chasidic niggunim drew on Viennese waltz music and Eastern European military marches. Sulzer and Lewandowski wrote like German Protestants. In the Diaspora, Jewish music has always been a hyphenate.
Spend Chanukah Barenaked
Keren Engelberg
December 2, 2004
While naming your holiday album \”Barenaked for the Holidays\” is a pretty catchy way to get some attention, for the quirky pop band that calls itself the Barenaked Ladies, it made sense — about as much sense as getting naked on \”The Sharon Osbourne Show\” last year, anyway. Apparently, stripping down\’s just part of the offbeat Canadians\’ sense of fun. So it follows that anyone expecting the Ladies\’ holiday album to be anything less than silly would be, well, silly.
The new CD offers up revamped Christmas, Chanukah and New Year\’s classics, as well as a few original tunes, including one called \”Hanukkah Blessings,\” written by Jewish band member Steven Page. The reinterpreted songs include a version of \”Jingle Bells\” that has \”the extra lines you remember from being a kid,\” Page recently told rollingstone.com.
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Words From the Old Ball Game
Rachel Brand
May 29, 2003
In his new book, pop songwriter Seth Swirsky pays tribute to the sport that has played such an important part in his life.
Opinion
Avi Davis
June 18, 1998
The sight of Israeli Minister of Tourism Moshe Katzav being kissed by Israeli singer and Eurovision song contest winner Dana International must have made someone, somewhere blush. But you wouldn\’t have known it by reading any of the Israeli papers last week. With the kind of glee that is only reserved in the Holy Land for the smashing of idols, Israeli editorialists pounced on Dana\’s victory as further proof that Israel, having produced not just a Eurovision contest winner, but a transsexual one, has finally arrived as a nation among nations. So finally, we have the good word from Israel: Androgyny is in. Ethnocentricism (read Judaism with its intolerance for diversity and priggish emphasis on sexual purity), is most definitely out.
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