In March our label, Bully! Pulpit Records in partnership with Nettwerk Music Group released the debut album from an amazingly talented singer named Molly Jenson. We've gotten many good reviews in the last nine months but the ones we received from Campus Circle and
So how are you liking our new millennium so far, kids? Me, I'm thinking Vinko Bogatoj. Vinko was the Slovenian ski-jumper from a distant decade (1970 to be precise), who took that horrific fall at some World Championship and became the painful embodiment of the agony of defeat. It was...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted December 25, 2009 | World
For a long time we had a New Year's ritual, we met with several friends at Camilla's house. Seated on the floor with everyone talking at once, we would put a slip of paper in a wicker basket with our name, a personal...
In a classic Yiddish theater song from the 1920s that is still popular today, Aaron Lebedeff, known in his day as "the Maurice Chevalier of the Yiddish stage," opened with a striking cantorial-style refrain: "Roumania, Roumania, Roumania, Roumania."
The first verse declared:
"Once there was a beautiful land...
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted December 25, 2009 | Politics
On Christmas Eve, a New Jersey resident with a Jewish surname, David Goldman, was finally reunited with his 9-year-old son, Sean, who had been living in Brazil for the past five years, the object of a grotesque custody battle that would have made even Franz Kafka cringe.
In 2004, Sean,...
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted December 24, 2009 | Politics
Dan Weiner | Posted December 24, 2009 | New York
In this Week 15 post-game analysis, we rejoice in the G-Men's drubbing of the hapless Washington Redskins. In so doing, we give credit to Eli Manning, Ahmad Bradshaw, Kevin Gilbride, Will Beatty, and the rest of the New York Giants for a job extremely well-done (except for Michael Boley, on...
Grant Cardone | Posted December 25, 2009 | Business
The world could learn a great deal from Santa about what it takes to be successful especially regarding how to work and sell your products and services. If you want to know what it will take to get the job done in 2010...
There are many lessons to learn from the health care war that has raged over the past year. We'll get to some of them below. But here's the bottom line: Pass the bill, then improve it.
The health care bill that will emerge from the House-Senate conference committee won't be...
Janet C. Rotter | Posted December 24, 2009 | New York
On a chilly Friday evening, December 4, a moving event took place at The Studio School, 115-117 West 95th Street. We gathered to honor the life and legacy of Virginia O'Hanlon. A large gathering, including three generations of the O'Hanlon family, attended the ceremony to dedicate an historic plaque in...
Mort Zuckerman | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
The end of a year always provides an opportunity to think about the true joys of living in this wonderful country we call America.
One quality integral to the American sense of community is giving. It has traditionally been a key characteristic of our society -- "the spirit of mutual...
Dr. John Salerno | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
Dr. John Salerno, internationally acclaimed physician specializing in weight control and anti-aging, was asked why he recommended organic foods for his patients -- a topic tackled in in his new e-book, Dr. Salerno's Silver Cloud Diet (www.thesilverclouddiet.com).
Dr. S: Because I want my patients to eat nutrient dense...
David Nichtern | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
I think it's fair to ask ourselves early on, why are we afraid of just sitting still? Why are we terrified of that? Or irritated by it? Actually it's for you to find out. But I would like to suggest the possibility that we are afraid of ourselves. We are...
The Oil Grinch
Cordova, Alaska. Fifteen hours after the accident, it's still unclear why the tug Pathfinder went aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. If "Bligh Reef" sounds familiar, it's because that same hunk of rock snagged the Exxon Valdez in 1989, causing the nation's worst oil...
From an objective point of view, President Obama made the logical decision to focus on settlements as a first step in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to the table. Settlements are not popular among Israelis. There is no issue on which Israel and the United States have disagreed for so long.
...F. Kaid Benfield | Posted December 24, 2009 | Green
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted December 24, 2009 | Style
Happy Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Festivus and all the rest of it. Here in New Orleans the balconies are glowing and the holidays are nowhere near an end as the city barrels straight through to New Years Eve, Mardi Gras and the Superbowl (#whodat).
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Shari Arison | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
The spirit of the holiday season is now spreading all over the world. For most people, this is a time of good will. I believe that we should take the good will of the holiday season into our everyday lives. It is possible to give back to the community, to...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
I'm currently in Jerusalem celebrating the birth of a grandson where I receive two emails from the headquarters of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, both related to the theft of an icon of evil -- the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the Auschwitz Death Camp.
The first came from the...
Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted December 24, 2009 | Living
It's Christmas time and almost every store is encouraging us to give money to cure childhood cancer. It is certainly easy to feel sympathy for a child who has lost her hair, and to empathize with what her life will be like.
Unfortunately, the millions of children who are...
Mark Joseph | Posted December 25, 2009 | Entertainment