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“At first glance, the term “jazz rabbi” might seem incongruous, but the recent installation of Greg Wall, a well-known jazz musician, as the rabbi at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue, a modern Orthodox congregation in the East Village, shows that the porkpie and the yarmulke are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In an Oct. 31 concert […]

“Here we go again: A paper published by two researchers at the University of London claims to prove that music affects our responses to visual images. In “Crossmodal Transfer of Emotion by Music,” Joydeep Bhattacharya and Nidhya Logeswaran report that people who look at a picture of a human face can be influenced in how […]

“A Palestinian worker prays at the site of a new housing project at the Jewish settlement of Har Homa in east Jerusalem on September 7, 2009.” DayLife.com

“The Observer: When did you start rapping?
Rinat: I first started to write regular songs. I wrote my first song about eight years ago in response to the murder of my cousin, Elazar Leibowitz (may God avenge his blood), from the holy city of Hevron. He was a special person, and he returned his soul to […]

“Steinway & Sons factory in Hamburg March 4, 2009. Steinway & Sons, a German-based subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc of New York, whose 370 workers produce about 1,300 pianos along with other musical instruments for Germany and the rest of the world outside the United States, set up its factory in Hamburg in 1880.” […]

“But the controversy only enhanced his popularity. In the months after the ban, he released an album, “A Poshiter Yid” (A Simple Jew), with a title song that could serve as a Yiddish version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” The chorus concludes, “I am still not a Tzadik (a righteous one), still I don’t […]

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“It seems that Lipa Schmeltzer is forming close connections to Lubavitch. The Event’s producer R’ Shea Mendlowitz related that many Lubavitcher niggunim are being prepared for the concert, with brand new, never before heard arrangements, because of Lipa’s warm connection to these niggunim. Mendlowitz emphasizes that the Lubavitcher niggunim weren’t chosen because of the large number of […]

“You could easily say that multi-instrumentalist Andy Statman is that rare thing: a master of two utterly dissimilar musical forms. As a fierce bluegrass mandolinist and a consummately expressive klezmer clarinettist, he’s also established himself as an innovator on two very different instruments. But perhaps he’s just being the best Andy Statman he can be, […]

The Menorah lighting will take place at the foot of Lady Liberty on Tuesday, December, 23 at 5:15pm-6:15pm to honor the memory of the shluchim Rabbi and Mrs. Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg and other victims of the Mumbai attack. The program will include a special guest performance by M Generation. A Special charter ferry will […]