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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

David Bowie

David Bowie, shown with his wife Angie at home in Kent, England, in 1971, is wearing a dress that he famously wore on the cover of his 'The Man Who Sold the World' album. (Peter Stone/Mirrorpix/Getty Images via JTA)
January 24, 2023, 11:17 am
Museum wants David Bowie’s dress for exhibit on UK Jews in fashion
Museum of London Docklands puts out call to public for famous garments created by Jewish and immigrant designers who shaped industry
By David I. Klein
Ricky Gardiner plays with Beggar's Opera in 1971 (Screen grab/YouTube)
May 18, 2022, 1:51 pm
Guitarist Ricky Gardiner, whose riff opened Iggy Pop’s ‘The Passenger,’ dies at 73
Scottish musician also played with David Bowie; in 1995 he composed a piece of music he said marked the liberation of Auschwitz, which he considered his most important solo work
By ToI Staff
Fireworks explode above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year's celebrations on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
January 1, 2017, 1:36 am
Around the world, revelers bid adieu to a year of conflicts, celebrity deaths
Amid tight security, crowds from New York to Sydney, Tokyo to Dubai greet a new year with hope and trepidation
By AP
Beyonce conquers the stage again on May 9, 2016, in an Israeli-designed outfit by Inbal Dror. (Courtesy Formation Nation)
December 6, 2016, 7:10 pm
Beyonce leads Grammy nominations with 9; Drake, Rihanna, Kanye get 8 each
Adele up for album, record and song of year, while late icon Bowie gets 4 nods for final Darkstar
By Mesfin Fekadu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 21, 2016 (Courtesy)
April 22, 2016, 3:01 pm
Meeting in Moscow to clear up a misunderstanding
Hebrew-language papers deal with backstory to Netanyahu’s discussion with the Russian president, and offer tips to drivers on how to avoid accidents
By Adiv Sterman
Lady Gaga as ZIggy Stardust, courtesy of RealSense tech nology (Screenshot)
February 16, 2016, 7:21 pm
The Israeli tech in Lady Gaga’s Ziggy Stardust makeup
At the Grammys, Intel Israel shows what the RealSense 3D camera is capable of
By David Shamah
A still from David Bowie's 2016 music video 'Lazarus.' (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 27, 2016, 6:34 pm
Bowie’s last single said to feature tribute to Kabbalah
In his 2016 song ‘Lazarus,’ British pop star evoked his 1976 single ‘Station to Station,’ where he sang about Jewish mysticism
By ToI Staff
Israeli singer Dana International performing at the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem. (GPO)
January 20, 2016, 8:49 am
TOI talks: Dana Internationalizing the foreign press
On this week’s episode, the next step for Israel after Iranian sanctions relief; Margot Wallstrom is at it again; a place among the nations for Shimon Peres; and finding the Jew in David Bowie
By Raoul Wootliff
David Bowie at a press conference at the 36th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 1983 (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
January 15, 2016, 4:04 am
How David Bowie’s ‘adoptive’ Jewish family welcomed him to America
In January 1971, before his rise to world fame, rocker spent opening night of first US tour at Maryland home of the Obermans
By Gabe Friedman
David Bowie at a press conference at the 36th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 1983 (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
January 12, 2016, 3:33 pm
David Bowie was into Kabbalah, and sang about it
The Jewish side of the late musical icon
By Gabe Friedman
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reaches for a smartphone for a selfie with a supporter after a campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa, on January 11, 2016. (AP/Jae C. Hong)
January 12, 2016, 10:11 am
Clinton confronts rival Sanders as Iowa polls tighten
Fearing 2008-like upset, Democratic front-runner now attempting to undermine rival’s liberal credentials as close race emerges
By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the Jerusalem offices of left-wing NGO B'Tselem, on January 10, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2016, 1:43 pm
‘Where are we now?’
Papers fill their space oddities with a much pilloried interior minister and a stop and frisk bill coming back from the dead, though a leftist NGO beset by controversy that goes up in flames carries the news
By Joshua Davidovich
In this September 14, 1995, file photo, David Bowie performs in Hartford, Connecticut. Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades, died Monday, January 11, 2016, after battling cancer for 18 months. He was 69. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)
January 11, 2016, 1:03 pm
From ‘Heil Hitler’ to ‘Shalom, Tel Aviv,’ the many incarnations of David Bowie
A dabbler in Kabbalah and religious rituals, the British performer’s trend-setting career ended with the release of his 25th album last week
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
David Bowie performs during a concert celebrating his 50th birthday, at Madison Square Garden in New York, January 9, 1997. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
January 11, 2016, 10:37 am
British music legend David Bowie dies at 69
A week after release of 25th studio album, iconic singer died ‘peacefully’ following year-and-a-half-long battle with cancer
By Mesfin Fekadu
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