When Amy Winehouse died, her family sat shiva. For seven days following the burial, Amy's parents and older brother observed the traditional mourning period in Judaism, as friends and community members visited the home to pay their respects.
I mention this because Amy, who shares a name and spelling with one of my sisters, was Jewish. But you would be forgiven for not knowing this amid the flurry of copy and content churned out for the opening of the biopic, Back to Black.
