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Tzruya "Suki" Lahav, pictured in Jerusalem, July 31, 2008. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90)
April 3, 2026, 1:16 pm
Tzruya ‘Suki’ Lahav, writer, poet and briefly Springsteen’s violinist, dies at 74
In her early 20s, before her long career as a Hebrew lyricist and author, Lahav played and sang with the E Street Band: ‘I went from kibbutz harvest music to rocking with Bruce’
By David Horovitz
Former US president Barack Obama, film director Steven Spielberg, and singer Bruce Springsteen join staff at the Amar restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 2023. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 29, 2023, 7:55 pm
Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen dazzle Barcelona restaurant
Famous customers, in town for The Boss’s concert, enjoy seafood meal before posing with staff for photo
By Michael Horovitz
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform, Monday, April 3, 2023, at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
April 5, 2023, 3:44 pm
Proving it all night, 73-year-old Springsteen rocks a first-timer’s socks off in NYC
At an April 3 show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, The Boss treats fans to a non-stop 3-hour set, making a $334 dream come true for a nice Jewish boy who shares his NJ hometown
By Jordan Hoffman
Paul McCartney performs during his "Got Back" tour, June 16, 2022, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)
June 19, 2022, 5:16 am
Paul McCartney marks 80th birthday with Springsteen, 60,000 pals
Aging Beatle celebrates milestone with New Jersey concert, highlighting over a half-century of music and all he still has to offer
By David Bauder
Walter Yetnikoff in New York on January 17, 1978. (AP/Carlos Rene Perez)
August 11, 2021, 5:40 am
Walter Yetnikoff, schmoozy brawler who headed CBS Records, dies at 87
Jewish lawyer turned media kingpin found success with megastars such as Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, but earned reputation for volatile, churlish attitude
By Hillel Italie
The cover of 1975's 'Born to Run' album, by Bruce Springsteen. 'Thunder Road' is the opening track. (Courtesy)
July 16, 2021, 7:05 pm
‘Oy Vey!’: Springsteen’s guitarist waves off a lyrical firestorm
46 years after it was released, obsessives are suddenly arguing about the opening words of ‘Thunder Road,’ arguably his greatest song
By David Horovitz
In this image from video, Katy Perry performs during the Celebrating America event on January 20, 2021, following the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. (Biden Inaugural Committee via AP)
January 21, 2021, 8:02 am
Stars come out for packed Biden-Harris inauguration concert
Event hosted by Tom Hanks at Lincoln Memorial was mix of live, virtual performances from stars including Springsteen, Perry, Timberlake, Legend, Yo-Yo Ma as well as 3 ex-presidents
By Agencies
My Father's Place, in Roslyn, New York. (Steve Rosenfeld)
August 14, 2018, 9:57 pm
How a Jewish kid from the burbs helped launch Springsteen and make music history
Three decades on, ‘Eppy’ Epstein reopens his iconic Long Island venue My Father’s Place, where some of the world’s most famous bands got their start
By Steven Davidson
Musicians Nils Lofgren (L) and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on March 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)
April 3, 2018, 5:09 am
Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist saved by old bar mitzvah gift
Hours before sold-out solo show in Dallas, Nils Lofgren discovered his four vintage guitars had been stolen
By Gabe Friedman
In this Nov. 7, 2016, photo Bruce Springsteen performs during a Hillary Clinton campaign event at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
August 9, 2017, 11:05 pm
Bruce Springsteen plans series of Broadway fall concerts
The Boss to perform eight weeks of intimate shows with just him, ‘the guitar, the piano and the words and music’
By Mark Kennedy
Jewish studies professor Azzan Yadin-Israel. (CC, BY-SA, Asherif99444/Wikimedia)
May 11, 2017, 10:43 pm
Into the Fire: A Jewish studies prof. searches for The Bible in the lyrics of The Boss
Azzan Yadin-Israel maps theological parallels in the songs of Bruce Springsteen, finding Sodom and Gomorrah, the Exodus, and much more from Testaments Old and New
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rod Stewart performing in Hamburg, Germany in October 2013. The singer will perform on June 14 in Tel Aviv (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
February 1, 2017, 10:59 pm
Israel hopes for summer of rock amid talk of bookings
Rumors fly about Duran Duran and Tears for Fears along with confirmed concerts from Rod Stewart and Justin Bieber
By Jessica Steinberg
Bruce Springsteen performing during a rally in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 6, 2016. (AFP/KENA BETANCUR)
January 19, 2017, 8:06 pm
Springsteen gives ‘humble, quiet’ secret show for Obama
Fan magazine says some 250 White House staff attended private 15-song acoustic performance
By AFP
President-elect Donald Trump speaks, in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
December 4, 2016, 10:38 pm
Subdued enthusiasm, protest surround Trump inauguration planning
Crowd expectations down, fewer A-list celebrities likely to attend and hotel rooms vacant ahead of national ceremony
By Nancy Benac
A picture of rocker Bruce Springsteen and biker Dan Barkalow taken November 12, 2016 after the singer got stuck on the side of a New Jersey highway when his motorcycle broke down. (Facebook screen capture)
November 14, 2016, 3:23 am
Bikers help Springsteen, stranded on roadside
Famed rocker a ‘nice guy, real down to earth,’ say motorcyclists who helped him near hometown of Freehold, New Jersey
By AP
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