Category: The Chutzpah List
By Len Canter On Friday June 1st, history was made when the New York Mets played the St. Louis Cardinals. As much of the Big Apple audience was on the edge of its collective seats as Mets pitcher Johan Santana took the mound in the ninth inning, the adrenaline was also coursing through the veins [...]
From This You Can Make a Living? Part II: The Jewish Invasion By Len Canter Photography by Janet Macoska Part I of Chutzpah’s essay on the history of Jewish Rock and Roll found Jews cultivating the Black sound and then dominating the infant artform as songwriters, disk jockeys, cutting-edge producers and risk-taking record executives in [...]
From this you can make a living? Part I – In The Beginning By Len Canter Music always seemed to be playing somewhere in our house. We all had our little niches carved out—my mom had an unbelievable collection of Broadway show tune LPs (for you younger readers, those were the vinyl discs that came [...]
Our top 20 favorite Jewish films By Len Canter Reading “Saying Kaddish” in last issue of Chutzpah and the remembrance of Elizabeth Taylor by Monk Friedman, who happens to be a neighbor of mine, got me thinking back to her film career. Being a self-proclaimed movie trivia buff, having earned my stripes as a contestant [...]
Yiddish began as a cultural, private language, but many of its most expressive words have been assimilated into English and are now used as readily as any bon mot of the King’s speech. Move over, Spanglish. By Len Canter What I know from Yiddish started with what I picked up eavesdropping when my grandmothers and [...]
By the late ‘80s, Jews had almost disappeared from MLB…now suddenly the bases are loaded. By Len Canter Global warming being what it is, distinctions between the seasons are seeming to disappear, but there will always be the traditional signals that it’s time to shed the grey shades of winter and herald the Jewish rites [...]
Show us your best shot reading the magazine in print or on your iPad—the more unusual the setting the better! We will post your photos online and feature the winners in a variety of “best of” categories: Best location Most funny Most creative Most unusual Most chutzpah Email your pix to [email protected] By sending in [...]
Will Eisner (1917-2005). A legend in the industry and arguably the godfather of the modern comic book, Eisner created many familiar comic book characters including Blackhawk and Sheena, but his greatest contribution may have been the masked crime fighter, The Spirit. Eisner is regarded as the originator of the graphic novel; his seminal A Contract [...]
BASKETBALL: THE JEWISH GAME… A TO Z Do You Remember The Guys Who Gave Us Pick-And-Roll? By Len Canter The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by a minister, James Naismith, who believed that it would promote “muscular Christianity.” That game would be unrecognizable today with its peach baskets, players passing the ball but [...]
Jewish dudes (and dudettes) who have made their mark in rap, hip hop and reggae Once upon a time, not too long ago, oh, let’s say about the year 5730, reggae and its precursor ska were the sole province of Jamaicans, guys like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh who had lived the hardscrabble life in [...]
By Marc Kaye When experiencing a difficult situation, it helps to keep a journal. But given all the sweeping of Matzah crumbs I have been doing, who has time for that. As a substitute, I’ve taken past journal entries and taken out the most salient leanings to create “The 8 Tweets of Passover.” Don’t [...]
The Passover Marketing Problem
By Marc Kaye Moses may have parted the Red Sea but I’m pretty sure he never had to contend with the super awesome Easter Egg Hunt next door. Take my word for it - he’d have to fight a lot harder for that sort of coverage on CNN. This basically comes down to a marketing [...]
The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by a minister, James Naismith, who believed that it would promote “muscular Christianity.” That game would be unrecognizable today with its peach baskets, players passing the ball but never dribbling (a minor adjustment never envisioned by Naismith) and final scores like 5-4. It wasn’t until Jewish immigrants [...]
As the Israeli people face their greatest threat in years, the US premiere of the French masterpiece, La Rafle (The Roundup) from Menemsha Films opens in cities across the country and serves to remind us of why Israel was created and why it must be defended. With a script based on extensive research and first-hand accounts, writer/director Rose [...]
Legends of Rock Final Countdown: Son of a Russian gangster and lifetime sufferer from various compulsive disorders, Warren Zevon http://www.chutzpahmag.com/archives/2165 learned to play the piano under no less than Igor Stravinsky. Zevon prospered as one of rock’s great singer/songwriters known for his often dark, slightly humorous and always sardonic take on almost everything. Check out [...]
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