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Star-Studded Music Video Highlights the Importance of Embracing Inclusion

June 6, 2019/By/InNews/0 Comment

You could call We All Belong the swan song of the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative, a four year, $1 million effort to create a welcoming culture for those with disabilities and mental health conditions, but the all new music video is so much more than just a short-lived catchy tune. A multi-faceted project conveying the importance of […] Read More

Announcing the Winners of the Jewish Music Week in Toronto Student Art Contest

June 6, 2019/By/InFeatured, News/0 Comment

Thank you to all of the artists who submitted their work to the Jewish Music Week in Toronto Student Art Contest. The theme was How Jewish Music Makes Me Feel and the results were spectacular! Below are the winners, finalists and honourable mentions. Come see their artwork up close at the Jewish Music Week Student Art Exhibit May 14 – […] Read More

Reclaiming Sephardic music, culture on road to Spanish citizenship

May 31, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/0 Comment

When Maya and Noa Dori were kids growing up in Israel, they used to spend Shabbat with their grandmother Lisa Romano. One night, as Maya tells it, they walked outside and “started to pinpoint the stars.” Their grandmother quickly swatted Noa’s hand, furious. “She said, ‘It’s forbidden,’ ” Maya remembered during a recent phone call […] Read More

Duo bring the songs of Calcutta to Jewish Music Week

May 31, 2019/By/InNews/0 Comment

Unlike many Jews around the world, the 5,000 or so who lived in Calcutta up until India won its independence from Britain in 1947, were part of a tolerant society. The auspicious situation the Jews of Calcutta found themselves in is reflected in their music. While Ashkenazic music is in the minor mode, Calcutta’s uses […] Read More

Mitzi Manna’s Yiddish Theater Torch Song

May 31, 2019/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Date Sunday, June 02, 2019 Time: 2:00pm Location: Central Library Mark Taper Auditorium Audience: Adults Category: LA Made, Performance RSVP: Free tickets available via Eventbrite. Description: Mitzi Manna, an international star of the Yiddish stage, has appeared in basements everywhere from Berlin and Bucharest to the Bronx and back. She is thrilled to at last be […] Read More

Only two weeks left! Yiddish Flavors of Love: A Musical Celebration, 6/16/19, NYC

May 31, 2019/By/InFeatured, News, Yiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

Tickets going fast! Sunday, June 16, 2019 3:00 p.m. YIDDISH FLAVORS OF LOVE: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION performed by The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York City $40 $30 for groups of at least 10 $25 for students […] Read More

Songs for Che Guevara a recent Jewish “Guerrillero”

May 23, 2019/By/InMusic/0 Comment

Cantor Moshe Ganchoff, Pulitzer Prize-Winner Julia Wolfe, A Jazz Schwing, and more

May 23, 2019/By/InMusic/0 Comment

Cantor Moshe Ganchoff reflects on a life in the cantorate. Interview by Neil W. Levin, Jacob Mendelsohn, Nathan Lam, Alberto Mizrahi, Noah Schall, and Daniel Gildar. Milken Archive oral history excerpt. Read More

Listen to Moshe Hammer!

May 22, 2019/By/InEvents, News/0 Comment

Did you miss the interview with Moshe Hammer about his fantastic JMW concert “Budapest to Israel to Toronto”? Click here to hear him talk about his life story in music with Mike & Jean on their Classical Mornings show! Then get your ticket before the concert sells out! Tuesday, May 28 at 7:30 PM Beth […] Read More

Fortuna, brazilian singer and composer of Sephardic Jewish. Researcher of the Sephardic tradition

May 21, 2019/By/InRincón Sefaradí/1 Comment

SINGER AND SONGWRITER OF JEWISH DESCENT, FORTUNA WAS RAISED IN THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO, ALWAYS DEEPLY TIED TO MUSIC, DANCE AND THEATER. In the 1980s, while staging her first plays, she composed a repertoire of songs in partnership with the Curitiba-born poet Paulo Leminski (1944 – 1989). The decisive chapter of her career, however, would initially […] Read More