Leonard Bernstein
From radical chic to Jew-hatred chic
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 1, 2023
(RNS) — Leonard and Felicia Bernstein threw one of the most famous parties in New York social history. It still reverberates today.
The thing about Bradley Cooper’s nose
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 21, 2023
Bradley Cooper playing Leonard Bernstein? No big deal. The nose thing? Meh. Let's all get a grip.
Composer Bernstein’s children defend Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose after ‘Maestro’ is criticized
By Jake Coyle — August 18, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — To some, Cooper's nose in the trailer seemed like the kind of outsized caricature that has been a regular feature of Jewish portrayals throughout film history.
The hidden villain of ‘West Side Story’
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 20, 2021
(RNS) — 'West Side Story' has a back story — and it is not pretty.
Reckoning with Leonard Bernstein’s faith on the centennial of his birth
By Yonat Shimron — August 22, 2018
(RNS) — Did the multitalented Jewish composer and conductor finally find God and faith? We will never know.
Tom Wolfe’s message to the Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 17, 2018
Tom Wolfe understood what was happening in Gaza. Even if he never mentioned it.
Leonard Bernstein, social activist, is focus of new exhibit
By Kristen De Groot — March 20, 2018
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernstein's lifelong effort to find the solution to 'the 20th century crisis of faith' through music is on moving, and sometimes surprising, display at Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History.
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