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How can a Grateful Dead celebration counter Iran's threat on Israel - comment

David Brinn discusses whether he should brave a trip to a concert in Tel Aviv given Iran's threats, or stay home and live with caution.

AUGUST 8, 2024|ByDAVID BRINN

PARTICIPANTS GROOVE at Dead Gathering in the Arava in 2022.

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer for the Texas Jewboys, died Thursday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 79.

JUNE 28, 2024|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Israel’s rhythmania entertains children in white cross orphanage

All-female drummer band performs in the Philippines to mark Israel’s 75th birthday

MAY 28, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Taylor Swift greets fans before a conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 9, 2022.

After criticism, Taylor Swift adds Orthodox-friendly dates to her upcoming tour

This week, Shabbat-observant Swifties voiced their disappointment with the dates, which were all slated for during or just after the end of the Jewish Sabbath, on Friday or Saturday nights.

NOVEMBER 5, 2022|ByCALEB GUEDES-REED/JTA

Turkish court halts Khashoggi trial, transfers it to Saudi Arabia

Ahead of the ruling, Human Rights Watch had warned that transferring the trial to Riyadh would block justice.

APRIL 7, 2022

ByREUTERS

The committee to protect Journalists outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington on October 2 2019 marking one year to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Country singer Kenny Rogers dies at 81

The American singer "passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family," a statement on the singer's website said.

MARCH 21, 2020

ByREUTERS