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Justin Bieber’s Jewish Father Figure Tells All
We get a lot of interesting e-mails at Jewcy–from Nazis threatening us to Jews for Jesus trying to convert us–but getting e-mails asking us if we’d like to interview Justin Bieber’s Jewish manager, Scooter Braun, takes the cake. Read More
J.D. Salinger, We Hardly Knew Ya…
Taking a look at the newest biography out on J.D. Salinger, and thinking about how little we actually knew of the author. Read More
Irish Name, Jewish Person
Meet Tara Dublin. She’s Jewish, not Irish. Yes she’s quite aware that her name sounds like a character from “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” Read More
Jew vs. Jew: Bob Dylan And Lou Reed
In our attempt to look at Jewish cultural figures and their impact on society, we pit them against each other like two artistic gladiators. This week we take two rock ‘n roll gods. Read More
The Ira Glass Infatuation Post/This American Life Review: The Invention of Money
Ira Glass and crew tackle money. We are obviously giddy like little schoolchildren for this. Read More
If You ‘Like’ Mein Kampf
After the deadly shootings in Arizona over the weekend, we take a look at people who claim to ‘like’ Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Read More
Jewcy Interviews: Myla Goldberg – Author
Some writers spend an entire career seeking critical and popular success. For Myla Goldberg, it came early with the success of her book “Bee Season” — and the eventual film adaptation of the novel helped Goldberg score a bestseller with her first try. Her latest novel, “The False Friend,” is another winner. Read More
Jewcy Interviews: Vanessa Davis – Comic Artist/Writer
The reason that Make Me a Woman, the collection of comics by artist and writer Vanessa Davis, didn’t make it into our top art books of 2010 is simply because we felt the book was in a class all of its own. Read More