Special Event “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope” Featuring Governor Andrew Cuomo, Whoopi Goldberg, Renée Fleming, Adrien Brody, Billy Joel, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Lang Lang, Joyce DiDonato, Lea Salonga, Lauren Ambrose, and many others The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for […]
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Today 3 Jewish events from all over the world. Enjoy each of them and have an extraordinarily good Sunday. *** Event 1 International Yiddish Event Live Online! Sholem Aleichem From Every Continent! (IN YIDDISH ONLY) When he passed away in 1916, Sholem Aleichem, the most beloved Yiddish writer of all time, requested in his will that his family and […]
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Featuring new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English. The Detroit-born and Berlin-based Kahn has toured the world as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, translator, and teacher. He originated the role of Pertshik in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene‘s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Fidler afn Dakh), which features his translation of the lost Bock/Harnick song […]
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We present to you “Zog Nit Keyn Mol” in Spanish, from Mexico. With respect, all standing when listening to the anthem of resistance at the Museum of Anthropology during a Holocaust Remembrance event. Nunca digas Nunca digas que esta senda es la final. Acero y plomo ocultan un cielo celestial. Nuestra hora tan soñada llegará, […]
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JOURNÉE d’ÉTUDE / WORKSHOP au Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po 56 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris With the support of the association ‘Musique et Spoliations’ Working language: English Inscription obligatoire : inscription.CHSP+la-musique-spoliee@gmail.com 8.30-9.00: Welcome of participants 9.00-9.15: Introduction by Claire Andrieu and Jean-Marc Dreyfus 9.15-9.30: Address by Corinne Hershkovitch (lawyer, founding member of ‘Musique et Spoliations’) […]
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UCLA will host its first American Jewish Music Festival on March 1 under the banner “Music Crossing Boundaries.” The all-day event is funded by the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, with some additional support. It is co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for […]
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Soul to Soul is the electrifying and emotionally captivating theatrical concert that follows the experiences of two minority peoples and their paths to America’s promise of freedom—overcoming segregation, prejudice, and economic hardship. An event not to be missed. For the first time, this year’s Soul to Soul will feature singers from the Oscar- and Grammy-nominated IMPACT Repertory Theatre. The […]
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Preservation New Jersey presents IKH ZING: The Yiddish Tradition, a celebration of Yiddish culture from Europe and the Americas through song, performed by The Murad – Zinger Duo featuring Nicole Murad, vocalist and and Pablo Zinger, piano. The program will include old traditional songs, favorites from Poland and Ukraine such as Oyfn Pripetchik and Kinder Yorn, humorous songs, ancient ballads, […]
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Jerusalem’s Hassadna Wind Orchestra has been selected to perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April as part of the New York International Music Festival. The teen orchestra, consisting of 48 high school students, is one of six ensembles from around the world selected to perform at the famed New York venue. At the festival, […]
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“We opened the festival with a concert that is entirely a message of peace and dialogue achieved through music,” said Jacob Ben Simon, the orchestra’s general manager. Photo: The Kasbah of Aït Benhaddou in southern Morocco, built by the Berbers from the 14th century onwards. Credit: Donar Reiskoffer via Wikimedia Commons. An Israeli orchestra from […]
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