Music maven from the Motor City
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Cleaning up in the kitchen one night, I flipped on the radio to Minnesota Public Radio and ...
Tag: Bob Dylan
Book explores the bard of Hibbing’s local roots
Reviewed by MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Dylanologists never sleep. At least it seems that way for the coterie of Bob Dylan ...
Bill Charlap Trio draws on a vast repertoire
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The piano trio is a venerated configuration in the world of jazz. Jazz pianists have told me ...
A musician’s musician
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Apparently, I conducted a phone interview with musician David Bromberg on March 11, 2020. I barely recall ...
Dan Israel sticks close to his Minnesota home
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Which Jewish musician has roots on the Iron Range and has a new recording coming out soon? ...
The Rebbe and the shofar
Rabbi Moshe Feller writes: "The core mitzva of the Torah, 'Love your fellow as yourself,' means that just as you ...
In praise of George Soros
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The financial wizard and global philanthropist George Soros is a polarizing figure, to say the least. Pundits ...
Prince and the Jews
By STEPHEN SILVER (JTA) — In the late 1960s, when Neal Karlen was not even 10 years old, he would ...
Kinky Friedman: Back in the saddle again
By MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Interviewing Kinky Friedman is about three parts fascinating war stories from a half-century in ...
Jewish Minnesota’s contribution to Hollywood
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Every year the Oscars include some Minnesotans, which is always a subject of interest ...
