Get ready for Jewish Music Week in Toronto
Best Festival Ever!
May 21 - 28, 2017
Program Guide coming out next week, and complete Calendar
of Events will be posted at www.jewishmusicweek.com
on Friday, April 20.
Here are some of the highlights:
Rocky Mountain Jewgrass
Sunday May...
The Secret Jewish History Of Peeps
Just as ironic as the fact that “White Christmas” was written by a Jewish composer named Irving Berlin, Peeps, those famously neon-colored marshmallow Easter treats, are also produced by Jews. Based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,...
Her Name is Carole King Her Story is the Beautiful Musical of a Lifetime
Beautiful — part biography, part jukebox musical — opened in San Francisco in 2013 before transferring to Broadway the following year. The show has netted two Tony awards and a further five nominations. It also...
Turkey, where are your Jews?
The Turkish newspaper Milliyet published a news report on March 20 entitled “Synagogues from the era of Byzantium are about to disappear forever!”
“Among the historical and cultural heritage of Istanbul that is on the...
A Delicious 360° Gastronomic Tour in Jerusalem
This special tour with the new Vuze.Camera's VR unique 3D+360° technology will allow you to experience one of Jerusalem's most unique and delicious gastronomic tour like never before. Meet Jerusalem based chef Moshe Basson...
Tackling Holocaust whitewash
AUSTRALIAN Holocaust researchers have applauded an activist’s campaign for the truth about the World War II records of two Lithuanians he claims have had their anti-Semitic activities whitewashed by Lithuania’s state-run research into the...
100 Years Ago, Immigration Policy Was Just As Crucial — And Controversial
Two contrasting images in “1917: How One Year Changed The World,” at Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History, demonstrate the volatility of American attitudes toward immigrants.A World War I poster cautioning against food...
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, famous for ‘Babi Yar’ poem, passes away
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose 1961 poem about the Nazi massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev helped to expose rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, died Saturday at 84.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1972Yevgeny Yevtushenko in...
Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahlan
A yellow teddy bear hangs from the ceiling. With a patterned parachute attached to its tiny body, it hangs, midflight, amid a cacophony of other creatures like a stuffed lion, a stuffed moose, a...
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In March we had some great conversations and maybe just a kleyn bisele of Purim fun. It seems that you, our readers, enjoyed these things as well: this month we reached 2,000 "likes" on...