Bob Dylan
How many deaths …?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 19, 2024
(RNS) — As Marvin Gaye sang: 'War is not the answer.' A new book asks: Is it ever the answer?
If Bob Dylan could sing about Israel and Hamas…
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 30, 2023
Listen to "Neighborhood Bully." It is the song we need to hear -- today.
Bob Dylan’s new book is a Jewish masterpiece
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘How does it feel?’ Bob Dylan actually tells us, in 66 songs.
Life is not ‘Alice’s Restaurant’
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 6, 2022
(RNS) — Because I am not quite sure that ‘you can get anything you want.’
Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan!
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 24, 2021
(RNS) — The Dylan song we need. Right now.
What religion is Dylan now?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 23, 2020
He's been Jewish. He's been Christian. He's been Jewish, again. And, now?
Where have you gone, Paul Simon?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 6, 2018
Paul Simon's music was often Christian. And sometimes, more Jewish than he thought.
A kaddish for Walter Becker
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 4, 2017
What was Jewish about Steely Dan? Maybe more than we thought.
Vatican daily paper sees missed opportunity in Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
By Josephine McKenna — October 14, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) An editorial in the daily, L’Osservatore Romano, praised Dylan for his 'very great talent' yet expressed doubt about whether the songwriter really deserved the same plaudits as contemporary literary writers.
The religious wanderings of Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate
By Kimberly Winston — October 13, 2016
(RNS) Scholars of the rock-pop-country-folk singer, songwriter, poet and author have long charted his spiritual meanderings.
Bob Dylan’s lyrics get the recognition they deserve
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is good for the Jews. Here is why.
Why Jews are ‘cross’ with Paul Simon
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 27, 2016
If we were shocked by Paul Simon's DNC cross, it is only because we have not been paying attention.
Happy 75th birthday, Bob Dylan!
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 23, 2016
Bob Dylan turns 75. Let's honor his contributions to Jewish culture.
Are you ‘Camp-Passionate?’ Jewish summer camps change lives
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 6, 2015
At the entire meaning of these camps is to create and to model Judaism -- in worship and in social values. Generations of Americans show their impact.
Pete Seeger’s legacy of peace and justice through music
By Laura Turner — January 29, 2014
Pete Seeger, who died Monday at 94: "I used to say I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God."
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