Billy Joel: The Piano Man Demonstrates Against Hate

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The Forward
The Forward Staff

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2017-11-01

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https://forward.com/news/382479/billy-joel/

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The singer, Billy Joel, was raised in Long Island, New York. His father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and the family downplayed their Jewishness. In fact, Billy Joel attended church as a child, and according to him, the most Jewish aspect of his upbringing was being circumcised. Although he is an atheist, he began to strongly identify himself as a Jew following the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when he "got loud and proud about being Jewish," and wore a yellow Jewish star on his jacket at a concert in Madison Square Garden. Click on the link to read the article.

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Joel, Billy, Music, United States, Singers, Composers

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