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For Late Jewish Musician Peter Yarrow, Being Jewish Gave Him a ‘Sense of Mission’

JL;DR SUMMARY Peter Yarrow, of the iconic folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, passed away in 2023 at age 86. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Peace ActivismJewish ActivismHanukkahTikkun OlamControversyPeter YarrowFolk MusicLegacyPeter, Paul And Mary

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Israel
"just two months after the beginning of the ongoing Israel-Hamas War."
Greenwich Village, New York, United States
"Yarrow became part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene."
New York, United States
"When his performance at a New York festival was cancelled in the wake of the #MeToo movement in 2019, Yarrow did not fight the cancelation, calling the choice neither unfair or unjust."

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