As the 8 nights of Hanukkah wind down, I wish to all my friends and family of the Jewish persuasion much happiness, joy, and continued health and success!

I grew up listening to my parents’ records and none still have their original power as those of Francis Albert Sinatra Before Michael Jackson, before Bob Dylan, before Elvis Presley, there was Sinatra, the first modern pop superstar. In the floodtide of centennial tributes (he was born on Dec. 12, 1915), we celebrate the cool, ring-a-ding-ding Sinatra, a man with the world on a string — but his most far-reaching