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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

Simone Veil’s Jewish Music farewell

July 9, 2018/By/InArticles, Music/0 Comment

Los judíos de Francia, parte intrínseca de la nación y centro vital de sus fibras más liberales y su resistencia al fascismo acudieron en masa, junto con las autoridades y el pueblo de Francia en general al homenaje, y traslado de sus restos mortales, de Simone y Antoine Veil al panteón de Los Héroes de […] Read More

“Oifn veg shteit a boym” collection

June 5, 2018/By/InMusic/0 Comment

El Cancionero Tradicional Judeo-Español – Eleonora Noga Alberti

May 9, 2018/By/InArticles, Featured/0 Comment

Estimados colegas y lectores: Comparto con alegría un trabajo que ocupó más de la mitad de mi vida y que concluí hace algo más de veinte años, mi Tesis Doctoral. Acabada, el 31 de marzo de 1997, defendida y aprobada el 16 de abril de 1998 ante el jurado formado por el Dr. Rodolfo Buzón, […] Read More