Fratboy slim and the kosher kids

Jews are all over American pop history like a kosher rash: from the Brill Building era of Bacharach/David, Neil Sedaka and Carole King to late-1970s NYC, where Richard Hell, Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone, Lenny Kaye and Blondie's Chris Stein turned the punk hotspot CBGB into what Suicide's Alan Vega and Martin Rev (both Jewish) described as "an alternative synagogue". You might think there should have been more Jewish rappers: it's very wordy, and the delivery of those words is intense. Really, thou...

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