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Harvey Blume

Arts Remembrance: Critic Stanley Crouch — Jazz as a Metaphor for Democracy

“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Stanely Crouch

Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago

To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Gary Busch, Hasidic, Jewish murder, NYPD killings, Rudy Guliani

Film Review: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Jews Coddled in Big Sky Country

This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amy Geller, Chaim Bruk, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, The Rabbi Goes West

Author Remembrance: Writer Pete Hamill — Sane, Liberal, and Literate

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Pete Hamill

Special Feature: Quotes for the New Year

Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured Tagged: New Year Quotes

Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion

Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Harold Bloom, Harvey Blume

Arts Interview: Talking With David Milch

“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: David Milch, Deadwood, Deadwood: The Movie

Television Commentary: Martin v. Tolkien

Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings

Feature: Quotes for the New Year

Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News

Television Review: “Shtisel” — A Charming Look at Jerusalem’s Ultra-Orthodox

Shtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: Netflix, Shtisel

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