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Noel Paul Stookey is still singing for a good cause The Blue Hill resident gained famed with Peter, Paul and Mary in the 1960s and recently put out an album to raise money for several causes. Photo by Sally Farr Noel Paul Stookey first gained fame as a singer and activist with Peter, Paul and Mary nearly 60 years ago. As part of that folk trio, he sang to more than 200,000 people during the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. also delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. HEAR HIM LIVE Noel Paul Stookey will perform live to kick off the Portland Press H...

The mask is the fashion statement of the year We all wear masks. Hasn't it always been that way? The author using a cumerbund as a mask, because it is not as if I would be attending a formal affair any time soon March 12, 2021 I am referring to the mask. This past year, all human beings have been living out the great truth that Judaism has always known. We all wear masks. We have always worn masks. A great scholar of religion once noticed that the only religion of antiquity that did not require its priests to wear masks seems to have been ancient Judaism.

New Lawsuit Accuses Singer Peter Yarrow of Raping Underage Girl in 1969 On 2/25/21 at 12:37 PM EST Folk icon Peter Yarrow has been accused of raping an underage girl in 1969. The musician, best known for his involvement in the 60s group Peter, Paul and Mary, is facing a new lawsuit that alleges Yarrow "groomed" the then-teenager. Documents were filed on Wednesday at Manhattan Supreme Court in the suit, which was brought under the Child Victims Act. Documents claim that Yarrow, now 82, met the victim a number of times before the incident took place in a Manhattan hotel room. He then "took an i...

Anne Feeney, fierce and tireless protest singer, dies at 69 Feeney, a fierce and tireless folk musician who played more than 4,000 shows over a 30-year career, appearing at peace protests, picket lines and fund-raisers for progressive causes, died on Feb. 3, 2021, at a hospital in Pittsburgh. She was 69. Bev Grant via The New York Times. by Clay Risen (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Anne Feeney, a fierce and tireless folk musician who played more than 4,000 shows over a 30-year career, appearing at peace protests, picket lines and fundraisers for progressive causes, died Feb. 3 at a hospital in Pittsbu...

“It’s not about comparing scars,” says Rabbi Capers Funnye, his thought completed moments later by Dr. Michael Berenbaum’s, “It doesn’t mean the Holocaust doesn’t have something to say about slavery and slavery doesn’t have something to say about the Holocaust. Both of them have something to say about suffering.” You couldn’t prove it by my Hebrew school teacher, Rabbi Sol Lerner, who, in 1966, escorted his class to Chicago’s Roosevelt Theatre — a downtown picture palace that took up an entire city block — to attend a performance of the 10-year anniversary reissue of...