Noa Kirel, 21, was named on Monday as Israel’s representative for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. A panel from Israel’s public broadcasting network, Kan, and others picked the singer from a total of 78 candidates, reported Ynet. Kirel is a popular singer who has been performing since she was 14 years old. According to the report, she […]
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He and his family escaped the Nazis. His music will now be played where Hitler’s regime tested its weapons. The New York Philharmonic—in an event a decade in the making—will hold three performances next week at the Usedom Music Festival, which presents concerts in the turbine hall of the Peenemünde Power Station in Germany. Peenemünde was […]
Read MoreThe Jewish a cappella group Six13 created a mash-up of classic tunes from Jewish musician Billy Joel for their new Passover song, aptly titled “A Billy Joel Passover.” The music video for the track begins with the group’s rendition of Joel’s “Piano Man,” which they turned into “Pharaoh Man.” Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” […]
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Ecuadorian-Jewish, Latin Grammy-winning artist and World Vision Ambassador Paulina Aguirre has released her new single and accompanying video “La Tierra Llora,” a new and powerful song that draws attention to climate change of the earth and inequality around the world. To underscore her condemnation of the tragic events occurring in Europe today, Aguirre has dedicated the song to the […]
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The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus (formerly Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC) דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July “Star-Spangled Banner” in Yiddish (with reverse translation back into English) “America the Beautiful” in Yiddish and English “America” (Yiddish Choral Music about Mount Rushmore) “Fourth of July”, a.k.a. […]
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Thanks to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and the Torah, Mount Sinai is the best-known mountain in Jewish history. If the husband-and-wife bluegrass team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff continue their climb through the music world, their Nefesh Mountain band may be the next mountain the Jewish and secular world is buzzing about. Their third full-length […]
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די וואָך איז אָנגעקומען די טרויעריקע ידיעה, אַז די זינגערין זשעניע פֿײַערמאַן איז אַוועק אין דער אייביקייט צו 96 יאָר. צווישן די ווידעאָס פֿון פֿײַערמאַנס אויפֿטריטן, וואָס מע האָט לעצטנס געטיילט אויף פֿייסבוק, איז איינער פֿון זיי אַ קאָנצערט, וואָס זי האָט געמאַכט מיט דער ייִדישער גרופּע, Jewrythmics, אין 2012. אינעם ווידעאָ זינגט פֿײַערמאַן, דעמאָלט שוין […]
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Each April 19th, we gather at the stone in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park to mark the anniversary of the single greatest instance of Jewish armed resistance to the Holocaust with an academy remembering the victims and fighters of history’s greatest crime. Due to the pandemic, this is our second virtual academy. […]
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Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals of ancient Israel and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. Its name comes from the miracle in which God “passed over” the houses of the Israelites during the tenth plague. Centered on the family or communal celebration of the seder (ritual meal), Passover […]
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The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) is a multigenerational forty-voice ensemble. We’re students, professionals, and robust retirees, all in love with singing and committed to promoting Yiddish language and culture through beautiful four-part harmony. Few of us are fluent, but we all learn together from the Yiddish vocal literature—traditional folk songs, settings of classic and […]
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