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Hillel Italie

Country singer Joe McDonald plays during the Heros of Woodstock concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York, August 15, 2009, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1969 Woodstock concert. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
March 9, 2026, 6:56 am
‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s US rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84
Named after Stalin by his once-Communist Jewish mother and Presbytarian father, anti-war activist starred at Woodstock after rising to fame with ‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag’
By Hillel Italie
Rachel Goldberg and Jonathan Polin, parents of Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, attend a demonstration by the families of the hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, August 29, 2024, days before their son's body was recovered by Israeli forces on August 31, with indications that he had been killed within 48 hours of its recovery. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
January 15, 2026, 6:36 pm
Rachel Goldberg-Polin publishing memoir on grief-filled journey after son’s abduction
‘When We See You Again’ slated to come out in April, with Random House saying Hersh’s mother ‘gives voice to the broken as she pours her pain, love and longing onto the page’
By Hillel Italie
Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative author and former editor of Commentary magazine, is shown in 1971. (AP Photo)
December 17, 2025, 3:14 pm
Norman Podhoretz, influential and contentious Jewish neoconservative, dies at 95
Hardline editor of Commentary Magazine, once among the last of the ‘New York intellectuals,’ helped reshape national dialogue toward muscular foreign policy, social conservatism
By Hillel Italie
FILE - British actress and singer Marianne Faithfull poses during a photo-call for her movie 'Irina Palm' at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin 'Berlinale' in Berlin, February 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
January 31, 2025, 3:34 am
British singer and pop icon Marianne Faithfull dies at 78; father saved mother from Nazis
Faithfull, whose heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires, known for inspiring some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest hits and her relationship with Mick Jagger
By Hillel Italie
File: Music producer Quincy Jones poses for a portrait to promote his documentary "Quincy" during the Toronto Film Festival on September 7, 2018, in Toronto, Canada. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
November 4, 2024, 11:28 am
Music titan Quincy Jones, who produced defining hits of 20th century, dies at 91
Jones collaborated with range of artists, from Michael Jackson to Frank Sinatra; married Jewish actress Peggy Lipton, daughter Rashida starred in ‘The Office’ and ‘Parks and Rec’
By Hillel Italie
Canadian author Alice Munro poses for a photograph at the Canadian Consulate's residence in New York, October 18, 2002. (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, File)
May 14, 2024, 10:19 pm
Nobel Prize winning short story writer Alice Munro dies at 92
Canadian-born Munro, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, often ranked with Anton Chekhov and John Cheever as one of the masters of the short story
By Hillel Italie
A logo is displayed at the PEN America Literary Awards on Thursday, March 2, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
April 14, 2024, 6:57 pm
9 authors refuse nominations for PEN awards, citing US group’s stance on war in Gaza
Critics say literary organization has not sufficiently condemned Israeli war on Hamas; PEN counters that it set up $100,000 emergency fund for Palestinian writers
By Hillel Italie
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari poses for a photo at his office in Tel Aviv, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 23, 2024, 7:02 pm
What’s information? Yuval Noah Harari gives answer in new book
Israeli author brings historical context to the modern age of information overload in book set to hit shelves in September
By Hillel Italie
Left: The cover of 'When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,' written by best-selling author Alice Hoffman. (Scholastic Inc. via AP); Right: Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)
January 4, 2024, 10:03 pm
New book by Alice Hoffman imagines Anne Frank’s life in Amsterdam before her diary
‘When We Flew Away’ is scheduled for September; scholastic publisher says it will dramatize how ‘state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters’
By Hillel Italie
FILE - Musician Robbie Robertson arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
August 10, 2023, 1:12 am
Robbie Robertson, guitarist for The Band, Dylan, dies at 80; never met his Jewish dad
Musician helped shape rock music in the 1960s, writing classics including ‘The Weight’; only learned of his late Jewish father, Alexander David Klegerman, in his teens
By Hillel Italie
File: Daniel Ellsberg speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, December 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
June 16, 2023, 11:57 pm
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers leaker who exposed Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92
Fighter-turned-whistle-blower embodied the individual of conscience, answering only to his sense of right and wrong even if price was his own freedom
By Hillel Italie
Barry Mann, left, and Cynthia Weil arrive at the 57th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, February 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
June 3, 2023, 8:46 am
Cynthia Weil, Grammy winning lyricist, dead at 82
Songwriter, who had a decades-long writing partnership with husband Barry Mann, best known for penning ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’
By Hillel Italie
File: Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors of MAD Magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society in Savannah, Georgia, October 11, 2011. (AP/Stephen Morton)
April 11, 2023, 8:40 am
Al Jaffee, cartoonist and creator of Mad’s Fold-In, dies at 102
An essential member of satirical magazine’s ‘Useful Gang of Idiots,’ he created self-explanatory ‘Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,’ amused fans for decades until retiring at 99
By Hillel Italie
In this combination of photos, Pope Francis, left, arrives for an audience with members of Roman Universities and Pontifical Institutions at the Vatican on February 25, 2023, and BBC sportscaster Gary Lineker attends the GQ Men of The Year Awards, at the Tate Modern, in London, on September 1, 2021. (AP Photo)
March 15, 2023, 12:56 pm
BBC sportscaster’s tweet revives debate over making ‘Nazi’ references
Holocaust and anti-Nazi scholars and organizations say that while sentiment is sometimes understandable, comparisons to Hitler are concerning and often inaccurate
By Hillel Italie
File: Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
February 8, 2023, 11:36 am
Long-awaited Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming this year
Publisher says book, teased for decades, runs to over 1,000 pages; it discusses her early struggles, album recordings, making of ‘Yentl,’ political activism, friends and family
By Hillel Italie
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