Anonymous ID: ef39d9 May 3, 2025, 8:10 a.m. No.22986657   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6675

https://forward.com/culture/music/717262/musician-jill-sobule-obituary-queer-jewish-icon/

Jill Sobule was as much a Jewish icon as a queer one

The late singer-songwriter’s music broached antisemitism, Nazi-fighting and Jesus’ dreidel-spinning

Sobule’s 1997 song, “Attic,” asked the essential question: “Would you have hidden me in your attic … or packed me on that awful train?” The song appeared at number 11 on the Forward’s 2022 list of the Top 150 Jewish Pop Songs. In her 2000 song “Heroes,” about celebrities and historic figures with stains in their private lives, Sobule noted that “T.S. Eliot hated Jews, FDR didn’t save the Jews…. All the French joined the resistance after the war.”

Sobule’s “Resistance Song” was written from the point of view of a cocktail waitress who dreamed about fighting the Nazis in the French underground. And “Jesus Was a Dreidel Spinner,” a punk-klezmer number, includes the lyric, “Jesus was a dreidel spinner and this we can’t forget / Paul was Saul before he was Paul and the Last Supper was a seder.” More recently, Sobule wrote “Commie Dyke Jew” in response to a hateful social media post calling her that.

Anonymous ID: ef39d9 May 3, 2025, 8:47 a.m. No.22986764   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Labour politician Peter Mandelson and the Russian aluminium tycoon, Oleg Deripaska had met when staying on a yacht moored near Corfu, in order to attend a party held by Lord Rothschild.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/rothschild-loses-puppet-master-libel-case-idUSTRE819170/

Rothschild loses "puppet master" libel case