Like Maestro Leonard Bernstein guiding young people through the joys and intricacies of classical music two generations ago, Joey Weisenberg is a gentle, but no less passionate, tutor. He’s not teaching about the bravado of a bassoon or the timbre of a tympani, but rather giving would-be High Holiday prayer leaders an intimate tour of […]
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On Sunday 12 July 2020, the Congress for Jewish Culture together with the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, and Yung Yidish of Tel Aviv honored the Yiddish writer Boris Sandler, celebrating his recent publication of 4 new works entirely in Yiddish with a program entitled. Steps up to a Miracle: a Cause for […]
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Sometimes, even the most adult person just wishes their mom could make it stop hurting. Desire to honor his late mother has prompted one New York City man to organize a concert in her memory at a time when much of the world needs comfort. Journalist Alan Zeitlin, who suffers from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, […]
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Opera star Beverly Sills (Belle Miriam Silverman, nicknamed “Bubbles” at birth) was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents on this date in 1929. She was singing professionally on the radio from the age of 4, and she appeared for the first time with the New York City Opera in 1955. She would not appear on […]
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“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this date in 1985. Katz played clarinet and sax from childhood (in Cleveland) and was earning money as a musician even before his graduation from high […]
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A study of his oral sources in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Santiago de Chile and Asunción del Paraguay. It includes texts and melodies compiled, transcribed and adapted by the author. Volume: I Year of publication: 1997 Publication name: Doctoral thesis – Part I Click here to download.
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The Passover seder is an activist’s dream of cultural ritual—a debate with dinner and drinking: an evening for celebrating liberation through cross-generational questioning, story-telling, challenging, and eating— bitter, sweet, salty—accompanied by music and wine. Why is this night different? Because it has it all going on—cognitive thrills, historical chills, taste temptations, libations—and all with high […]
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Record producer Syd Nathan, a high school drop-out who founded King Records in Cincinnati, died at 63 on this date in 1968. King Records released James Brown’s first single, “Please, Please”, as well as Brown’s 1963 hit album, Live at the Apollo, Vol. I, and created mainstream audiences for rhythm and blues artists as well […]
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