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A story for Valentine's Day from WBEZ's This American Life: "When You're In Love, the Whole World is Jewish." Host Ira Glass talks about the drama of trying to be "just friends" with an ex-girlfriend. The meaning of the title will be clear if you hear the piece. Tapes of This American Life can be purchased by calling 312-832-3357. (THIS PIECE ORIGINALLY AIRED ON TAL on 11/15/96)Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews the new Clint Eastwood film "Absolute Power."12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . .actress GENA ROWLANDS (jen-ah...roe-lenz). She spent three decades collaborating with her late husband John Cassevetes. Recently she worked with another Cassevetes -- her son Nick on the new film "Unhook the Stars." Also - a story for Valentine's Day from This American Life. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

2: American folk singer ROSALIE SORRELS may not be wildly famous but since the 1960s she's developed a near cult like following. Her admirers describe Sorrels as someone who has lived the life she now sings about. In fact, she was immortalized in a song by Nanci Griffith describing Sorrels as "Salt of the earth.....with a voice like wine." .Her newest CD is "Borderline Heart" by Green Linnet Records Inc. The book "Way Out in Idaho" is a collection of her poems, songs and recipes. In 1992, She received the recording industry "Indie" award for Best Storytelling album for her CD "Report From Grimes Creek."

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that patience is growing thin among vaccinated Americans for those who claim religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccines.

Professor Jason LaBelle speaks on our current understanding of Native American occupation of Colorado’s highest mountains over the past ten thousand years, as revealed through archaeology, ethnohistory, and oral history.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Shannon O'Neil, senior fellow for Latin American Studies at Council on Foreign Relations, about why she believes cutting Central American aid will create more migrant caravans.

Harold Terens volunteered to go to Normandy a few days after D-Day in 1944 to help bring back American and British POWs to England. This weekend, he returned to tie the knot with his sweetheart.

A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German citizenship.

By a 62%-28% margin, Americans view the demonstrations happening around the country as mostly legitimate protests rather than mostly people acting unlawfully, according to a new NPR Marist poll.

The FDA has issued new targets to reduce the amount of salt that manufacturers put in their foods. It could prevent thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease.

A push to protect To Kill A Mockingbird. Also: Notable books coming out this week include a wildly original collection of poetry and a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thriller.