Bob Dylan

This week in Jewish History: Eli Cohen hanged in Syria, Bob Dylan's birthday

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

Reproduction of an Israeli stamp being issued to honour the Mossad intelligence agency spy Eli Cohen who was hanged in Damascus
 Guitarist-vocalist Roee Fadida is heavily invested in Bob Dylan’s oeuvre.

Our Dylan: Bob Dylan’s work gets a local twist or two

 LOUIS KEMP gets ready to see his old friend Bob Dylan portrayed in ‘A Complete Unknown’ in Jerusalem on Sunday.

Watching ‘A Complete Unknown’ in Jerusalem with longtime Dylan confidant Louis Kemp

 TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET and Monica Barbaro as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in ‘A Complete Unknown.’

Chalamet masterfully channels Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown' - film review


Time unfolds in mind-bending ways - opinion

One minute, I'm holding a new grandson, and the next - timewise - I'm closer to needing a shower mat than a mat upon which to do some morning push-ups.

A mechanical clock

What David Brooks and Bob Dylan teach Jews about heresy

Bob Dylan and David Brooks's relationships with faith are a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

What David Brooks and Bob Dylan teach Jews about heresy?

'Israel's Bob Dylan': Meir Ariel to be celebrated in silver gig

Meir Ariel takes place for the 25th time on Sept. 30.

 MEIR ARIEL

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer for the Texas Jewboys, died Thursday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 79.

Ray Benson 88 224

The Jewish connection to folk music's Woody Guthrie

Although Woody Guthrie was not Jewish, his music is full of Jewish sounds and themes.

 The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Counting Crows coming to the Holy Land

“What it comes down to is that Israel is a place I loved when I was younger and we finally got an offer to go there and play. And I’m excited about it,” said founding bandmember Duritz.

 ADAM DURITZ of Counting Crows, and Duritz with the band, back when he still sported his dreadlocks.

The life and times of Bob Dylan’s longtime confidant, Louie Kemp

“Bob’s work always had a sharp spiritual ingredient to it – for example, Highway 61 with its story right out of the Torah about the sacrifice of Isaac."

 TO LOUIE KEMP, Dylan will always be Bobby Zimmerman.

Barbra Streisand sets new record: Top 20 album every decade since '60s

Streisand’s latest album, “Release Me 2,” came out Saturday and debuted at number 15 on the Billboard charts.

Barbra Streisand

Bob Dylan sued for allegedly sexually abusing 12-year-old girl in 1965

Jewish rock star Bob Dylan is being sued by a woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 12. A lawyer for Dylan vigorously denied the charges.

 Rock musician Bob Dylan performs at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, US, May 5, 2004.

Bob Dylan gives first performance in 2 year in a livestream

Shot in lush black and white, with multiple setups and costume changes, the performance was more a carefully directed art film than a live gig.

BOB DYLAN during his 'Shadow Kingdom' live-stream

This veteran doctor has saved the lives of thousands

Raised in New York City, Dr. Bernard Kabakow completed his graduate studies at Harvard University and then did his medical training at the University of Vermont Medical School.

DR. BERNARD KABAKOW, 94