admin | March 10, 2021
Twenty years ago, Marjorie Sandor chanced upon a performance of 15th-century music attributed to Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition. She was instantly captivated by the melodies, which sounded familiar though shed never heard them before. The experience was so powerful, she told The Times of Israel, that it propelled her on a nearly two-decade journey resulting in her debut novel, The Secret Music at Tordesillas.
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admin | March 10, 2021
Dr. Fohrman also suggested that singing may serve as a diversion.
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admin | March 10, 2021
Just before the American Revolution, a woman whose name I may never know disembarked a ship in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, destined for a rice field. She was a member of the Mende people of Sierra Leone
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admin | March 10, 2021
One of the most expensive Israeli series ever made lands in Australia this week on Foxtel*, a gritty war drama born out of a national trauma. But the series singularly focused story misses the opportunity to look at a conflict from the myriad perspectives which drove a consequential battle in global history
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admin | March 7, 2021
For most Americans, traditional Jewish culture summons up images of Passover seders with steaming bowls of matzah ball soup, black-hatted, pale-skinned Hasidic men, and Yiddish-speaking bubbes (grandmothers) and zeydes (grandfathers). In reality, these snapshots represent only one Jewish ethnic group Ashkenazi of many. Shared Jewish history, rituals, laws, and values unify an international Jewish community
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admin | March 7, 2021
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, Dr
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admin | March 3, 2021
Depending on your heritage. Jewish food may be your bubbes brisket, babkas and latkes or the shakshuka, bourekas or dolmeh recipes your family brought over from Iraq. In his cookbook Jew-ish, subtitled Recipes from a Modern Mensch, food writer, editor and test kitchen director Jake Cohen puts a fresh spin on classic dishes from the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish traditions, accompanied by engaging personal anecdotes as well as tantalizing photos taken by Matt Taylor-Gross.
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admin | March 3, 2021
Enjoy plant-based dishes at this years Passover. The holidays symbolism of renewal and the Jewish value of tikkun olam meet deliciously at the seder table with food thats good for your health and kind to the earth. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
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admin | March 3, 2021
The Resonant Heart is an evening of creative expression, cultural performance and femme celebration for International Womens Day. Ahead of this International Womens Day, The Boite will host The Resonant Heart, an evening of multidisciplinary performance from distinguished Melbourne-based artists from across the world. Conceptualized by musician and performer Nela Trifkovic, the evening will feature performances by two all-femme bands, as well as solos by acclaimed artists, Zimbabwean multi-disciplinary artist Tariro Mavondo, and Palestinian artist-activist Aseel Tayah.
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admin | February 25, 2021
Julia Watts Belser In biblical stories about Noah, his ark, the individuals who survive the flood and those left behind, Jewish tradition reckons with questions of human hubris and survival. California State University, Northridges eighth annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics on Wednesday, March 10, will explore ancient Jewish texts, along with testimony from contemporary disability communities, to grapple with the issues surrounding climate change and the question: Whose lives does society deem worth saving?
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