12.30.08
Hamas ups death toll by turning guns on its own people
NEW YORK TIMES: No justice, no peace, for Arab enemies of Hamas
12.29.08
Israel's Gaza Defense
WALL ST JOURNAL: The more damage to Hamas, the better the chances for peace.
12.29.08
Palestinians Need Israel to Win
WALL ST JOURNAL: If Hamas gets away with terror once again, the peace process will be over.
12.26.08
Workshop Live Is Dead
Berkshire Eagle fails to report on downtown business failure
12.20.08
Justice to Jews: No Bail, Go Directly to Jail
Ruling makes dual loyatly the legal default for all American Jews
12.18.08
KLEZMER CLARINET GREAT MARGOT LEVERETT FUSES COUNTRY AND OLD COUNTRY MUSIC AT CLUB HELSINKI ON SATURDAY, DEC. 20
One of world's greatest, according to Seth Rogovoy
12.18.08
[FILM REVIEW] HAPPY-GO-LUCKY by Mike Leigh
Review by Seth Rogovoy, critic-at-large, Berkshire Living
12.15.08
Berkshire Eagle owner on brink of bankruptcy
NY Times paints doom and gloom for Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group
12.4.08
The Biblical origins of Bob Dylan's IT'S ALRIGHT MA (I'm Only Bleeding)
King Solomon inspired one of Dylan's most enduring songs
7.13.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Los Lobos at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
11.29.08
[BOOK REVIEW] LUSH LIFE by Richard Price
Review by Seth Rogovoy, critic-at-large, Berkshire Living
11.26.08
MASS MoCA DIRECTOR to BRING SOL LEWITT SOUTH
Rest of the Story event at the Triplex on Dec. 14
11.25.08
[FILM REVIEW] QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
11.23.08
[FILM REVIEW} A SECRET by Claude Miller
Review by Seth Rogovoy, critic-at-large, Berkshire Living
11.23.08
Why so many Holocaust films, and what do they say about us?
Film critic A.O. Scott asks penetrating questions about our obsession with Nazis and their Jewish victims
11.23.08
Why so many Holocaust films, and what do they say about us?
Film critic A.O. Scott asks penetrating questions about our obsession with Nazis and their Jewish victims
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The Biblical origins of Bob Dylan's IT'S ALRIGHT MA (I'm Only Bleeding)
12.4.08
In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon explains what he set out to accomplish thusly:
"I applied my mind to seek and probe by wisdom all that happens beneath the sky … I have seen all the deeds done beneath the sun, and behold all is futile…."
In "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," Bob Dylan renders this more poetically:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
--excerpted from BOB DYLAN: Prophet, Mystic, Jew, by Seth Rogovoy, due from Scribner Books in late 2009
12/4/2008
Hey Seth,
Congrats on the book. It sounds like one I've been trying to write ;-).
www. martingrossman.net
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12/4/2008
So THAT'S the book you're writing. Excellent!
--David H.
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12/5/2008
Dylan's words were written at the height of his country's involvement in Vietnam, and I think he's prophesying the doom and corruption of American power, glory and affluence at the very moment of her apparent zenith. Military megalomania and materialism.
It's also an apparent allusion to the death of another notorious Jewish mystic prophet, when the sky grew black at midday, and God screamed in silent agony in the birth pains of mankind's redemption.
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12/5/2008
more poetically than king solomon!
you don't read biblical hebrew do you.
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12/6/2008
You don't read women authors, do you?
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