Paul Simon
When Stephen Colbert and Paul Simon talked about faith
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 25, 2024
(RNS) — Two amazing personalities open their souls on national television. What a gift!
Art Simon, founder of Christian anti-hunger group Bread for the World, dies at 93
By Adelle M. Banks and Bob Smietana — November 17, 2023
(RNS) — ‘We can be accidental accomplices in keeping people poor,’ TV travel host Rick Steves said he learned from Simon.
Paul Simon gets religion
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 19, 2023
It only took him 82 years, but Paul Simon has created a masterful piece of Jewish liturgy.
Is Paul Simon Jewish? Or ‘Jew-ish’?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 10, 2022
(RNS) — You can take the boy out of Queens. Can you take Queens out of the boy?
Paul Simon’s Yom Kippur sermon
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 20, 2018
Paul Simon is now homeward bound. Aren't we all?
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.
Why Nat Hentoff matters
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 8, 2017
Nat Hentoff -- jazz writer, First Amendment activist -- had the profound ability to change his mind.
Was Princess Leia Jewish?
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 27, 2016
(RNS) Carrie Fisher "invented" herself as a Jew. She had a claim on that identity all along, and as an adult, exercised that claim.
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.
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