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No, Adam Yauch wasn’t a yeshiva boy, but we can still claim him

Jewish Journal May 7, 2012

As a student at an all-girls day school in Brooklyn, the first thing I learned about the Beastie Boys turned out to be untrue.\nAccording to a yeshiva urban legend, two of the founding members of the Beastie Boys had attended The Marsha Stern Talmudic Academy in upper Manhattan. Some MTA students even claimed to know where the hip-hop pioneers had tagged the school with their handles.

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch dies at 47

Jewish Journal May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch of the seminal hip-hop group the Beastie Boys has died at the age of 47 after battling cancer.

Beastie Boys to join Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame

Jewish Journal December 8, 2011

The Beastie Boys are to be inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.

Eulogies:Lew Wasserman

Michael Aushenker June 6, 2002

Lew Wasserman, philanthropist, former chairman and chief executive of Music Corporation of America (MCA) and one of the last old-time movie moguls, died June 3 from complications of a stroke. He was 89.\n\nWasserman was born March 22, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Russian immigrant parents, Isaac and Minnie, proprietors of a struggling restaurant. In 1936, the same year that Carl Laemmle lost control of Universal Studios, a 22-year-old Wasserman, with only a high school education, began at the bottom at MCA\’s Cleveland office, a talent agency with a celebrity roster that included Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra. Wasserman worked his way up the corporate ladder and, a decade later, on Dec. 16, 1946, became MCA\’s president.