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Christina Aguilera. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Music pop star Christina Aguilera to perform in Israel

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Five-time Grammy-award-winning American pop singer Christina Aguilera will perform in Israel for the first time this summer, Live Nation announced on Thursday. She is scheduled to take the stage on Aug. 10 at Live Park...
The Guns N' Roses concert at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Guns N’ Roses rocks crowd of 60,000-plus in Tel Aviv

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U.S. hard rock band Guns N’ Roses performed in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 60,000 at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Monday night. The three-hour set began as the late spring sun...
World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper helped create a large-scale symphonic work honoring the heroism of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews escape World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, a half-Japanese convert to Judaism living in Tel Aviv, comes from a samurai background. So did Chiune Sugihara,...
Big Thief performing at The National's Homecoming festival in Cincinnati on April 29, 2018. Credit: Rebecca Sowell/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Grammy-nominated indie band caves to BDS, cancels two shows in Tel Aviv

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The Grammy-nominated indie folk-rock band Big Thief has canceled two concerts in Tel Aviv after being criticized by pro-BDS activists. The band, whose bassist Max Oleartchik is Israeli and lives in Tel Aviv, announced the...
The New York Philharmonic will hold three performances at the Usedom Music Festival, which presents concerts in the turbine hall of the Peenemünde Power Station in Germany, May 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Usedom Music Festival.

Nazi weapons site is to be filled with the sounds of Jewish-composed music

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He and his family escaped the Nazis. His music will now be played where Hitler’s regime tested its weapons. The New York Philharmonic—in an event a decade in the making—will hold three performances next week...
Michael Lang (left), the Jewish co-creator of the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival, during a 2016 interview. Source: Screenshot.

Co-creator of legendary Woodstock festival dies at 77

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Michael Lang, a longtime producer and the Jewish co-creator of the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival, died on Jan. 8 at the age of 77. The native of Brooklyn, N.Y., died from “a rare form...

Harmony: A New Musical

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Harmony: A New Musical tells the true story of The Comedian Harmonists, a group of six talented young men, Jewish and gentile, who came together in 1920s Germany and took the world by storm with...
Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan, New York. Credit: New York City Tourism Bureau.

New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to hold tribute concert on 9/11

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra will present a special concert to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. “Remembrance, Reflection, Resilience:...
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel Philharmonic to host virtual pre-Hanukkah global music celebration

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American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Foundation will premiere the “Israel Philharmonic Pre-Hanukkah Global Celebration,” a multidisciplinary program of instrumental performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, coupled with powerful messages of...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan (left) and Israeli singer Ishay Ribo at a New York event to raise emergency funds for Migdal Ohr, Aug. 18, 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli singer performs in New York to raise emergency funds for coronavirus relief

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Popular Israeli singer Ishay Ribo performed at an event on Tuesday with newly installed Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan at a fundraiser in New York to raise emergency funds for Migdal...