Culture

FREEWHEELIN’ RECOMMEND: SUZE ROTOLO MEMOIR OF DYLAN DAYS

By at 31 July, 2008, 12:07 pm

Suze Rotolo who was the girl on the cover of Bob Dylan’s second album “Freewheelin’” has written a memoir of her times. She was interviewed for the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home”and made such an impression as an intelligent forthright sensitive person who stayed true to herself, but whose impact on Dylan was undeniable, that […]

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Speech! Speech! Hollywood and its reaction to Humanitarian crisises or How Larry David and Angelina Jolie saved the world

By at 17 July, 2008, 3:00 pm

This past Sunday I gave a speech to the Hadassah Associates who are, for the most part, the husbands of the members of Hadassah. Hadassah is holding its annual convention in Los Angeles this year, and I was addressing the group after they had visited the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. My […]

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7.1.08: Jewish culture in Poland, Moscow, expanded book coverage on NPR and writers room the world over

By at 1 July, 2008, 10:41 am

RUTH ELLEN GRUBER, whose book on Jewish “roots” Travel is a classic, has an article in the Forward on the dynamic duo behind the revival of Jewish Culture in Krakow, and who have opened Jewish bookstores in Krakow and in Budapest. Click Here. The Guardian UK has a feature on writer’s rooms Nextbook has a […]

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