Frank Sinatra

“And in the end, the love you take”

By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2023
My final sermon -- a mix tape with Sinatra, the Monotones, Rav Kook, and Cynthia Ozick. More than four decades of striving for the holy.

Christmas isn’t always holly jolly – even some of its best-loved songs are bittersweet

By David W. Stowe — December 24, 2022
(The Conversation) — Songs of the season – sacred and secular music alike – sometimes acknowledge that Christmas isn’t all joy.

Woody Allen is wrong about the afterlife

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 2, 2016
Woody Allen doesn't understand Judaism's most profound teaching. He is not alone.

Was Sinatra Jewish?

By Jeffrey Salkin — December 10, 2015
Was Frank Sinatra "good for the Jews"? You bet.

Why I love Miami Beach

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 12, 2015
Meyer Lansky, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Holocaust survivors -- hanging out together on Miami Beach. Imagine what that would have been like.
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