Tel Aviv hackathon seeks solutions to ramifications of Australia’s bushfires
Israeli professionals and programmers were invited to participate in a special hackathon—events where participants work together to create solutions to problems in a limited amount of time—in Tel Aviv with the goal of brainstorming...
Sephardic music: La Roza enflorese
Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain. Since then, it has picked up influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, and the other places that Spanish...
Millennial Bundism: An Interview with Isabel Frey
INTRODUCTION
Isabel Frey is a Vienna-based activist and musician who recently released a debut album, Millennial Bundist. Faith Hillis recently caught up with Frey on Zoom to ask about millennials’ rediscovery of the Bund, the place of Yiddish...
IDF’s ‘Special in Uniform’ band hits 500-show milestone
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...
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...
Ada & Allison “In Droyzn is Finster” (It’s dark outside)
בלומינגטאָנער טאַלאַנטן
אַדה־רבקה העטקאָ און אַליסאָן פּאָזנער
זינגען דאָס פאָלקסליד
“אין דרויסן איז פינצטער”
בלומינגטאָן, אינדיאַנאַדעם 14טן אַפּריל 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=1S0VtsoknEA
New Fiddler on the Roof Movie Is Coming from Hamilton Director Thomas Kail
Fiddler On The Roof is moving from Broadway to the big screen. MGM is gearing up to produce a new movie adaptation of the hit musical, with Thomas Kail set to direct. Kail is known...
Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Jewish Singer Sings “Der Rebbe Elimelech” on Mongolian TV
We thought we'd seen it all when we posted videos of Hava Nagila on a Thailand TV show and Abanibi on a Spanish TV show.
But this week we came across a video of the...
San Diego Symphony begins salute to Bernstein today; A columnist remembers her encounters with...
The San Diego Symphony, like many other orchestras throughout the world, is honoring the centennial birthday of Leonard Bernstein, the great 20th century American conductor, composer, pianist and educator, by including his works in...