Barbra Streisand

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Who, exactly, is a yenta these days?

How did a Yiddish name meaning “refined” devolve into a term used to mean “blabbermouth”?

By Florina Rodov February 4, 2020 3:05 pm

Barbra Streisand slams Golden Globes for not giving award to women directors

Streisand is the only woman to ever receive a Golden Globe for best director, winning for "Yentl" in 1984.

January 8, 2018 1:27 pm

Barbra Streisand Asked Bob Dylan to Make a Record Together

Jewish fantasies everywhere came true last year when a handwritten card from Barbra Streisand to Bob Dylan was uncovered in the Dylan Archive, a trove of 6,000 pieces of his paraphernalia. The archive, which was jointly bought by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma for around $20 million, is home […]

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