admin | September 13, 2020
George Harrison; Philip Glass; John Coltrane; Andre Previn: the list of musicians influenced by Ravi Shankar is as diverse as it is distinguished.
admin | September 2, 2020
(JTA) Caroline Wellberys father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when he was 15.
admin | September 2, 2020
STA, 27 August 2020 - Slovenia-based artists will be in the focus of the 32nd Nights in Old Ljubljana Town. The international music festival will bring traditional sounds of modernity to the Ljubljana old town Thursday through Saturday. "Culture is one of the sectors that have been hit particularly hard by the current crisis," Jano Kern of organiser Imago Sloveniae has said in a press release.
admin | August 31, 2020
The Sephardim have begun this week to recite the Selichot penitential poems and prayers, including at the Kotel. In keeping with the Health Ministrys pandemic regulations, service is conducted in separate capsules to limit the number of participants and allow them to maintain social distancing.
admin | August 14, 2020
Nick Cannon has claimed his great-grandfather was a Spanish rabbi. The 39-year-old star - who was fired by ViacomCBS last month after making anti-Semitic comments on his 'Cannon Class' podcast - has claimed that he only found out about his roots after the recent controversy. Speaking to Rabbi Noam Marans on American Jewish Committee's 'AJC Advocacy Anywhere' show, he said: "My mother has been calling me every single day since this happened with so much family history
admin | August 14, 2020
This story originally appeared on Alma. I received what I believe to be an average Jewish American Conservative synagogue education. I attended Jewish preschool, the full run of weekly, then biweekly Hebrew school, and completed Hebrew high school all the way through the rabbis confirmation class.
admin | August 14, 2020
I was on the phone Sunday commiserating with a fellow scribe about how difficult it is to cover this presidential campaign, with its many virtual events.
admin | August 2, 2020
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the small community of Sephardic Jews that lives on in the Greek city of Thessaloniki is looking to its past to help safeguard its future.
admin | August 2, 2020
Image by youtube David Galante BUENOS AIRES (JTA) It took 50 years for David Galante to begin talking about his experience at Auschwitz. Born to a Sephardic family in Rhodes in 1925, Galante studied in a Jewish school as a child, learning Italian, French and Hebrew
admin | July 27, 2020
Jayne Cohen started her Zoom lecture on Latin American Jewish cuisine by offering the viewing audience virtual snacks: How about matzo balls with cilantro and jalapeo? Or empanadas with pastrami asado? Or matzo with a shmeer of cream cheese and guava jam
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