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A Sacred Legacy: An Interview with Deborah Katchko-Gray

February 11, 2025/ByJudith S. Pinnolis/InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

Deborah Katchko-Gray is a fourth-generation cantor and the second woman to serve as cantor in the Conservative movement. She founded the Women Cantors’ Network in 1982 and served for 25 years at Congregation Shir Shalom (of Westchester and Fairfield Counties) in Connecticut. She has made ten recordings, published two books, and received the 2020 Debbie Friedman […] Read More

Yiddish songs in 4-part harmony IHO International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2025/ByJewish Website/InArticles, Featured, Jewish World, Yiddish Song of the Week, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist IN HONOR OF International Holocaust Remembrance Day Three songs in Yiddish performed in four-part harmony with English subtitles Partizaner-himen ‮פּאַרטיזאַנער־הימען (Partisans’ Hymn) also known as Zog nit keyn mol ‮זאָג ניט קיין מאָל (Never Say) Unter di khurves fun Poyln אונטער די […] Read More

The Legacy of Menachem Mike Fox Z”L

January 22, 2025/ByJewish Website/InFeatured, Jewish People, Jewish World, News, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene mourns the passing of Menachem Mike Fox. Mike was a dedicated performer and teacher of Yiddish folk song, a poet, and one of the creators of Kids and Yiddish presented by NYTF for over a decade with new editions annually. Mike gave the world a great gift with his song Regnboygn […] Read More

Panoramic view of the interior of the New York Public Library reading room. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

After 40 years in a basement, the New York Public Library recovers a treasure trove of Jewish and Yiddish music

November 13, 2024/ByJewish Website/InFeatured, News/0 Comment

NYPL has acquired a unique collection of sheet music and documents that form part of the history of Jewish and Yiddish music broadcast on radio station WEVD. The collection of more than 3000 works performed live between 1927 and 1995 is now part of the library’s Dorot Jewish Division, and includes everything from Hasidic music […] Read More

Matthew Lazar. Credit: Courtesy of Zamir Choral Foundation.

Zamir Choral Foundation launches program to train Jewish choir conductors

October 21, 2024/ByJNS/InArticles, News/0 Comment

A $500,000 donation to the Zamir Choral Foundation from husband and wife Robert and Vicki Lieberman aims to teach conductors of Jewish choral music. Named after Matthew Lazar, the foundation’s founder and director, between 12 and 15 fellows will be selected for the program. Vicki Lieberman, a rabbi, called singing during Shabbat services “some of my most […] Read More

Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4

February 2, 2024/ByJFest - Press Release/InNews, Press/1 Comment

Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful and passionate evening of song is part of the 31st Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, better known as JFest, […] Read More

Alanis Morissette on finding her Jewish roots, fates of family in Holocaust

January 5, 2024/ByJewish Website/InNews/0 Comment

The musician who rose to prominence in the 1990s with her multiple hits, including “You Oughta Know,” has now learned the truth about her extended family. Alanis Morissette appeared on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots,” in which researchers and genealogists discover information about celebrities they ought to know. Morissette had learned in her 20s about her mother’s Jewish […] Read More

Music of Shabbat to Soothe the Troubled Heart

October 17, 2023/ByEileen Wingard/InEvents/0 Comment

If music can soothe the troubled heart, the music of Shabbat may be particularly effective with its prayer chants for peace, for healing, and for the departed. The next Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library program will feature the Music of Shabbat and will take place Thursday afternoon, October 19, 2-3:30 […] Read More

From the stage production, “Best Friends,” part of the Stav Festival in New York City from Sept. 28 through Oct. 29, 2023. Photo by Ohad Kab.

Stav Festival to fuse Israeli art, stage and musical performances

September 27, 2023/ByJNS/InNews/0 Comment

The Israeli Artists Project is holding the Stav Festival, named after the Hebrew word for “fall,” from Sept. 28 through Oct. 29 in New York City. With participation from 100-plus Israeli artists, the program offers a mix of theatrical plays, live music performances, an art exhibit, children’s activities and interactive workshops. “It is strategically timed around the Jewish […] Read More

Chassidic singer ‘Dedi’ Graucher dies at age 62

September 18, 2023/ByJewish Website/InNews/0 Comment

After years fighting a serious illness, Oded Dovid (“Dedi”) Graucher died in Jerusalem on Sept. 11. Graucher rose to prominence following the release of his second album, 1993’s “Ratza” with its epic title track making him famous in the world of Jewish music. He would record six more albums through 2003, followed by singles in 2008 and […] Read More