My daughter was baffled that this call for unity would come from a church with a cross on its roof. What happened to the separation of church and state? And that was just a Super Bowl ad.
This very serious and consequential discussion was overtaken Tuesday afternoon — at least on Twitter — by a ridiculous one over why his Orthodox lawyer, David Schoen, kept putting his hand on his head while taking a sip of water. As my yarmulke-wearing colleagues Benyamin Cohen and Jacob Kornbluh explained with a little help from their bare-headed friend PJ Grisar , it is especially important for religious Jews to cover their heads while eating or drinking, so Schoen — who had decided to forego a yarmulke for the trial — improvised.
By Wednesday afternoon, Schoen had returned to the floor of the Senate wearing his black yarmulke, and news had broken that Springsteen was arrested for drunken driving in November, causing Jeep to remove its ad from YouTube. Oh, how messy and tricky is our First Amendment, setting out ideals that often translate imperfectly into our real lives. The lawyer, who also withdrew his initial request that the impeachment trial break for Shabbat, certainly has the equal right to wear or not wear his Judaism on his sleeve — err, head — whenever he chooses.
To download and print a copy of these and other stories, click here. Jodi Rudoren is Editor-in-Chief of the Forward. Follow her on Twitter rudoren, or email rudoren forward. But then, Springsteen is nothing if not a master of media manipulation and showbiz jive, even if he does it in the guise of a blue-collar worker who just happens to be passing through on the way to the Five and Dime.
He's the ultimate professional amateur, his aw-shucks-me? There were no wardrobe malfunctions for the black-clad Boss, and nothing was left to chance. He just came on and commanded us to step back from the guacamole and put our chicken fingers down with such authority it made us wish we were eating guacamole and chicken fingers, as the E Street Band Nils Lofgren's sideburns looked great, by the way barnstormed their way through a four-song set comprising three "hits" - Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Born to Run and Glory Days — plus the title track of that new album.
On the day of last year's big game, Springsteen tweeted out a gif of the incident, so NFL fans could relive it on an endless loop. In the horizon behind him is Raymond James Stadium and Tampa, still linked to the thrust that'll live on forever.
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