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Adi Yehuda (blue uniform, center) and the Special in Uniform band perform their 500th show, at the Zappa Club in Tel Aviv, June 2023. Credit: Judy Lash Balint

IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ band hits 500-show milestone

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Most Israeli bands and performers would be happy to land a few gigs a month, but how many have clocked 500 performances in the past 14 months? Earlier this week, the Special in Uniform...
Madonna. Photo by Kevin Mazur/Flash90

Madonna due to visit Israel this week

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Kabbalah enthusiast Madonna is coming to Israel for the first time since taking the stage as an interval performer during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. The international pop star, who unofficially adopted the Hebrew name...
Israel's Noa Kirel at the Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool, May 13, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israel’s Noa Kirel finishes third at Eurovision

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Israeli pop star Noa Kirel finished in third place at Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool behind Sweden and Finland. The 22-year-old IDF veteran from the central Israeli city of Ra’anana was aiming to become the fifth...
Israeli singer Noa Kirel at the 2022 ACUM Awards ceremony for Hebrew Song near Tel Aviv on September 7, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Israel’s Noa Kirel advances to Eurovision final with ‘Unicorn’ performance

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Israeli pop star Noa Kirel on Tuesday advanced to the Eurovision 2023 final with her performance in Liverpool of her song “Unicorn.” She will compete on Saturday night to become the fourth Israeli to win the song...

Music from Terezin: What If These Composers’ Lives Were Not Cruelly Cut Short?

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Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library will present the second program in its Music from the Holocaust series, Music from Terezin, on Thursday, May 11, 2 p.m. in the library....
Cantor Arnold Saltzman in his office at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. in 2019. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

‘Musical retelling’ of Exodus story aims to bridge Jewish, African-American communities

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‘Musical retelling’ of Exodus story aims to bridge Jewish, African-American communities A Chicago pastor who made headlines camping out on the roof of an abandoned motel for 345 days to raise money for a new...
Distant Cousins, the popular Los Angeles-based band. Credit: Courtesy Distant Cousins.

Band places impressive song in impressive Hanukkah film

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The latest entry to the ever-growing musical category of “modern Hanukkah songs” has arrived. Distant Cousins—the popular Los Angeles-based band featuring former Blue Fringe frontman Dov Rosenblatt, Moshav’s Duvid Swirsky and singer-songwriter Ami Kozak—has a...
A Hanukkah menorah in Jerusalem, Dec. 16, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Everyone knows ‘Ma’oz Tzur,’ except they don’t

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The lights are kindled, the shamash is returned to its place and the family breaks into song: It is a rousing, march-like melody that is the aural equivalent of the menorah’s light—energy, joy and hope in...
Matisyahu. Credit: Photo courtesy of Matisyahu.

Matisyahu: ‘I’m definitely gonna win a Grammy’

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They say that children make you young and Matisyahu, whose real name is Matthew Miller, celebrated the birth of his sixth child, Judah Mac Miller, 11 months ago, partly named after fellow Jewish rapper...

Adam Sandler talks about ‘The Chanukah Song’ and a new film with the Safdie...

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Adam Sandler recounted a funny remark from a celebrity mentioned in his famous “The Chanukah Song” when he spoke to a crowd at the 92nd Street Y (now called 92NY) in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Following...