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Holocaust survivors and their descendants sing to celebrate life

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600 Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren sing in a moving tribute to the power of life and good over evil. Project organized by Koolulam, and filmed at Jerusalem's Beit Avi Chai center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Vuh1-jDi7Qw

Cleveland POPS Orchestra spotlight Jewish music icons Bernstein, Robbins

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The Cleveland POPS Orchestra will perform “A Broadway Celebration: Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins: A Centennial Celebration” from 8 to 11 p.m. March 2 at Severance Hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. “The...

1200 young Jews participate in 2018 Jewrovision

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The Youth Centre ‘Amichai’ in Frankfurt has won this year’s Jewrovision contest, Europe’s biggest dance and singing competition for Jewish youth, which took place for the first time in the city of Dresden. Dr. Josef...

Jewish Musician Paul Simon is Retiring

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Paul Simon has announced he will be retiring from regular touring gigs. At 76-years-old, he has had a career of about 60 years. Simon, although Jewish, never highlighted his religion. His stance goes against...

A Jew’s Blues: Mike Bloomfield

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IN THE 1960s musicians broke through the invisible barrier of the three-minute pop song. The single that did it, which rose to number 2, in fact, was Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965). Its six minutes...

German Jewish swing star, camp survivor dies at 93

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German Jewish guitarist Coco Schumann, who had a more than seven-decade-long career in swing and jazz music and survived several Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 93, his music label said Monday. “Not only his...

The Jews go to the Grammys, 2018 edition

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he 60th Grammy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, Jan. 28 with late-night talk show host James Corden hosting and CBS broadcasting. With this year marking the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein‘s birth, 2017 Tony winner Ben...

‘Holocaust survivor anthem’ to be performed at UN by 3 Israelis

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“I stand, the last one of them all, but all of them are still living in my soul.” These stirring words will be sung on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 by three...

SaveTheMusic Presents: Rivkele, a Yiddish Tango

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Rivkele, Rebeka Music: Z.Białostocki, Yiddish text: unknown vocal: Olga Avigail, piano: Hadrian Tabęcki, bandoneon: Grzegorz Bożewicz, guitar: Piotr Malicki Performed in Cultural Center Wilanów Warsaw …(from Polish Jewish Cabaret): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSFSYqqfOk The tango Rebeka was perhaps Polish Jewish composer Zygmunt Białostocki’s...

Will US-born Hassidic rapper represent Israel at Eurovision?

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Will an American-born, Hassidic rapper and convert to Judaism represent Israel at the 2018 Eurovision song contest? Nissim Baruch Black, the 30-year-old Hassidic recording artist behind the albums Nissim and Lemala, competed Sunday night for the chance to...