Word: kol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock on Sunday, I joined hundreds of Jews in Sanders Theater for Kol Nidre, the ritual prayer that begins Yom Kippur services. That evening I gained new insight into my religion...
...tucks Neil Diamond inside a tradition. He is revealed as a rouser, a showman, a kind of bandmaster of the American mainstream. Like Jolson's, even Diamond's slickest movements seem sincere. The stuff may be corny, but it's never prefab. Neil leans into the Kol Nidre as if it were a sacred version of his sound-track anthem for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. One may question his taste, but not his enthusiasm or his exuberance. America, his up-tempo celebration of the immigrant glories of American life that opens and closes The Jazz Singer, is equal...