Jerusalem youth orchestra selected to perform in New York’s Carnegie Hall
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...
Israeli Andalusian orchestra performs second concert in secret in Morocco
An Israeli orchestra from Ashdod performed at a music festival in Morocco in early December, despite calls to cancel and threats to boycott the festival from local BDS activists who are opposed to normalized...
Israeli auction house to sell Chagall painting in Israel, a first in more than...
Israel’s largest auction house, the Tiroche Auction House, will put “Jacob’s Ladder”—a painting by the world-renowned Jewish artist Marc Chagall—up for sale on Jan. 25. This will be the first time that a Chagall...
Beautiful Yiddish Chanukah Song, “Borekh ate”
The *beautiful* Yiddish Chanukah song "Borekh ate" ("Blessed Art Thou")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyFJb_0FWo
Performed by the
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
And if you haven't yet seen the following here's the JPPC performing the *playful* Yiddish Chanukah...
MOPA displays works of Jewish photographers
The works of past and present Jewish photographers are on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
There are seven works by Bern Schwartz in Talking With a Friend: Portraits by Bern Schwartz and a single...
Upcoming Yiddish theater, classes and events…
Me tor nisht farzindikn...
Greetings from ever-so-slightly-warmer-than-New-York Brazil, where I'm teaching Yiddish literature and performing Sholem Aleichem's monologues (in fact, I'll attach a flyer for the Sao Paulo date next Tuesday at the bottom of...
Yale Strom Yiddish scholar & artist leading a unique tour to Moldova and Romania...
I am excited to tell you that I am leading a tour next year to Moldova and Romania that will focus on the Jewish history and culture in these countries. I will also organize...
Come see the first Yiddish Play ever produced in America: The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin),...
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Presents
The Sorceress: A Yiddish Musical Fantasy
December 1 – 29, 2019
This December, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) will present the First Yiddish Production Ever Done in America: The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin), a magical, musical Yiddish...
Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness
Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
New Contemporary Yiddish “Hanukkah, Oh, Hanukkah”
On YouTube
A new contemporary choral arrangement of the classic song
"Oy, Khanike, Oy, Khanike" ("Chanukah, Oh, Chanukah")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhT8GcQj9o
in the original Yiddish.
Performed by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
For more info regarding this song,...