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From the corridors of the Idishe comes the best anthology of Mexican music

January 11, 2019/By/InCD of The Week/0 Comment

From the aisles of the idishe comes this incredible anthology of 5 albums to remember the best songs of Mexican music from 1920 to 1969. Almost 300 songs that will remind you of your best moments or surprise you when you remember them. They say that character, tastes and education are all recorded in the […] Read More

Dec. 4 (CD release) Concert at SDSU – Free with Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi and special guest – tell others

November 14, 2018/By/InEvents, Featured, News/0 Comment

Dec. 4 at 7pm at Smith Recital Hall (SDSU) come hear the music of Yale Strom’s Broken Consort’s new recording “SHIMMERING LIGHTS.” Concert is Free Members of Hot Pstromi (Jeff Pekarek – bass, Fred Benedetti – guitar, Eizabeth Schwartz – vocals Yale Strom – violin) will be joined by special guest musicians: Alex Greenbaum – […] Read More

Fiddler Extends Through Dec. 30th

November 1, 2018/By/InEvents/0 Comment

Due to popular demand, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene extends Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish for 32 additional performances marking a historic six-month run of this landmark production. Now through Dec. 30, 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Edmond J. Safra Plaza at 36 Battery Place New York, New York 10280 BUY TICKETS NOW […] Read More

Yale Strom’s Broken Consort: Shimmering Lights – new CD/recording on the ARc UK label

October 18, 2018/By/InYiddish Vinkl/0 Comment

‘Shimmering Lights’ is the delightful new studio album from ethnomusicologist Yale Strom. This album is a collection of traditional and new songs and instrumentals celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights known as Hanukkah. ‘Shimmering Lights’ presents a collection of traditional and new Khanike (Hanukkah) songs with musical influences from all over the world; it is […] Read More

NPR Report on Jews Inspires Black American to Write “My Chanukah

October 5, 2018/By/InEvents/0 Comment

Shaw’s “My Chanukah” was presented to, evaluated, endorsed, and is promoted by the Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles. Psychology doctoral programs professor (for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology) James E. Shaw, Ph.D., says he was “driven to action to write ‘My Chanukah’ by a National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast which I initially considered was the […] Read More

Sisu Vesimju (Canción de Simjas Toire) [שמחת תורה] La Alegría de la Torá

October 2, 2018/By/InMusic/0 Comment

Se celebra al concluir la festividad de Sucot, siendo en sí misma una festividad por sí misma. Es el día en que se termina de leer en las sinagogas la última parte de la Torá – Pentateuco, y se recomienza a leer la primera parte, conocida también como Bereshit – Génesis. El significado de Simjat […] Read More

Charles Aznavour, renowned French singer, dies at 94; he leaves us his Yiddishe Mame as legacy.

October 1, 2018/By/InMusic/0 Comment

Charles Aznavour died at age 94, on Monday the French media reported on the death of the singer. Aznavour was born under the name of Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris, the son of Armenian parents, sold more than 100 million records in 80 countries. The legend of Armenian roots was last year in Israel, where […] Read More

Tapping into the ‘Golden Age’ of cantorial music for the 21st century

August 14, 2018/By/InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

Ordained Chabad rabbi and cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz has traveled the world honing his voice and performing skills, and is now part of an effort to revive the classic tradition of “chazzonus,” the quasi-operatic Jewish music of more than a century ago. Photo: With jazz backup, Cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz sings “Sheyibone,” a fundamental Jewish […] Read More

This Is Your Brain On Music

July 25, 2018/By/InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

USC’s Dr. Assal Habibi has been studying the brains of 80 kids for five years in the hopes of answering the question: does studying music enhance brain function? We’ll soon find out. Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity. But, as we saw in the recent series Genius, he was also a gifted violinist. Did that […] Read More

Singer, composer and music producer Shim Craimer tunes in to ‘aliyah’

July 19, 2018/By/InArticles, Featured, Music/0 Comment

His newest song, “Tziyon,” originally produced as a closing-credits song for an Israeli movie yet to be released, will be set to a music video of his family’s aliyah, produced in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh. Photo: Shim Craimer performing. Credit: Courtesy. Shim Craimer, whose dulcet tones and high energy have secured him a place as […] Read More