Last night, at Madison Square Garden (MSG), local kid Billy Joel performed a concert for fans. During his encore set, Joel came out wearing a very prominent Star of David.
AM New York explains that anti-Semitism and neo-Nazis are a particularly personal matter for the piano man.
For his entire four-song encore, Joel wore a bright yellow Star of David on the front and back of his black suit. Cheers went up in the crowd when a close-up of Joel wearing the symbol was shown on the main video screen.
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The subject is close to Joel’s heart, considering how many of his relatives died in the Holocaust and how his paternal grandfather Karl Joel had to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, eventually settling in America after living in Switzerland and Cuba.