Article: The Other Philadelphia story: Jewish punk rock ethos infuses arts festival during next week's Republican Convention.

Belasco, Daniel
The Jewish Week
07-28-2000
The Other Philadelphia Story: Jewish punk rock ethos infuses arts festival
during next week's Republican Convention.

DANIEL BELASCO

STAFF WRITER

Scott Beiben was one of those unfortunates who was beaten and harassed at
school. At the time of his bar mitzvah, Beiben felt most alienated, pained
by the irony that while he was supposedly entering manhood, he received
"the strongest brunt of harassment."

In an acid-laced essay in the zine Mazel Tov Cocktail, Beiben described how
he invited all the most popular kids from his school in upstate New City
and, playing with their competitive spirit, talked it up so they would give
him inordinately generous gifts. "I ...

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