Song honors Bondi attack hero: Jewish musicians from Sydney in praise of Ahmed al-Ahmed

While initially trying to care for their family from afar, the tragedy prompted Simmon and Tuvel to channel their grief into ...
The World from PRX

The search for a Jewish Moroccan song change one artist’s life

Arabic music filled the air of Laura Elkeslassy’s Moroccan Jewish childhood home in Paris, especially on Fridays before Shabbat. But she didn’t grow up speaking Arabic, so she didn’t understand the ...
AV Club

Bruce Springsteen's 30 best songs ranked

Back in September 2023, Bruce Springsteen announced that he would have to shelve his planned tour until March 2024 so he could recover from peptic ulcer disease. The temporary retreat shouldn’t be ...

Jewish Calif. woman who was face of Nazi propaganda outlives the lie, dies at 91: ‘I feel a sense of revenge’

A Jewish woman, whose baby photo was used as Nazi propaganda after winning a contest to represent the Aryan race, died at her ...
COLlive

New Song ‘Light Will Win’ is Tribute to Bondi Kedoshim

Ha'or Yenatzeiach" has been released by brothers Ezry and Mizzi Israel, residents of Sydney, Australia, in memory of those ...
COLlive

8th Day Back with Song About Yosef Moker Shabbos

There are many songs about Yosef Moker Shabbos, the famous Talmudic story of the man who honored Shabbos with the best fish ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Hebrew University Library Gets Large N.Y. Collection of Jewish Music

Jacob Michael, noted American Jewish philanthropist, presented his collection of Jewish music — one of the largest in the world — to the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University ...
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Aleichem, Sholom: If I Were a Rothschild and Jewish Folk Songs [sound recording]

101 A Glezele Lehaim (A Toast) / Mikhail Alexandrovich, Naum Val'ter. Piano 102 Menashe / Mikhail Alexandrovich, Naum Val'ter. Piano 103 Itsik'l Hot Chasene Gehat (Itsik'l got married) / Naum Val'ter, ...
Westword

The Case for Hiking Alone

I was hiking alone in Boulder this past spring when a man came toward me on the trail, a jagged, baseball-sized rock in each hand. He was in his sixties, I guessed, the same age as me, and he wore ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

From burden to bridge: How Jewish music is reopening Germany’s cultural soul

Across Germany, Jewish music becomes a living answer to Holocaust memory and post–Oct. 7 antisemitism, one concert at a time. There is something about Germany. For many of us, the mere mention of the ...
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These Jewish artists are searching for home — at America’s only Catholic historically Black university

The Forward brings you independent, nonprofit journalism with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis of the Middle East, campus conflicts, and more. Sign up for the free morning newsletter today. (JTA ...
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The original Black Jews

The author discusses the origins of the Hamites and Shemites (or Semites). He states that the original Israelites were of the Black race and that the biblical Abraham (or Abram) was a Black Shemite (a ...