From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #795 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Sunday, September 27 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 795 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni & Jewish Celebrations [lawntreader@googlemail.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 19:18:36 +0100 From: lawntreader@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Joni & Jewish Celebrations There is this, I don't think it has been posted and is from an interview with Malka last November, on Joni's birthday, with David Yaffe. > bI think Joni is Jewish,b said Malka Marom, the author of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words. We were speaking mischievously about a story that Joni Mitchell had, on separate occasions, told to both of us. Some years before the death of her parents, she learned that her father had his name changed at Ellis Island. She had already learned that he also had Native American blood. So she asked her mother, bWhatbs it like to be married to a Jewish Indian?b But Mitchell, who turns 71 today, is not about to have Henry Louis Gates, Jr. find her roots on PBS, and Marom was speaking figuratively. Marom is definitely Jewishbshe is Israeliband because she feels intimately connected to Joni Mitchell, she feels that Joni is of the tribe, at least in spirit. (Jonibs second husband was Jewish, but their wedding was Buddhist.) bIn her soul she is Jewish, even if not in her blood,b Malka said with a laugh." The full address is http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and culture/books/186723/joni-mitchell-malka-marom I view myself as a bit of a spiritual nomad, taking bits and pieces as I wander through this life and I sometimes wonder if Joni is a bit like that, Anita Anita > On 26 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Laura O. wrote: > > Catherine, > > I wish I could find it now, but early this year (or was it last) after > one of her appearances in LA (it could have been the Hammer Museum) I > came upon someones instagram photo of Joni at the table of a Jewish > Holiday celebration or a shabat dinner. So this was in the last 12 > months that she was part of this tradition. > > Laura > > > From: Catherine McKay > Subject: Re: Joni and her jewish heart > > I'm finding it too difficult to find the exact articles where Joni has > spoken about religion in general or her religion specifically, but I > believe she has mentioned a number of times being, or at least being > influenced by, Judaism, Buddhism, native spirituality and likely more. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #795 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe