Exemplifying the universal power of pop music on screen is a key scene in the FX limited series “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” As Jesse Eisenberg’s protagonist Toby Fleishman, a divorced father mired in ...
https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 Copy URL ABSTRACT The article discusses Naomi Shemer's ...
(JTA) — If you read the “Harry Potter” series in Hebrew you may have noticed a curious Jewish fact: Though Sirius Black isn’t Jewish, the character sings a Hanukkah song in one scene. In an interview ...
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Talk about a schtick. Sean Altman, a ...
Houston-area residents will get a preview of the games, foods and good deeds of Hanukkah as Big Tent Judaism celebrates the holiday's approach with events at shopping malls, bakeries and other public ...
Yagel Oshri’s “Getting Over Depression” has become an unofficial anthem in a country where iconic songs often emerge from crises. (JTA) — An Israeli reservist on leave from the war in Gaza sneaks back ...
Connie Francis, 20th-century star, recorded 60s album of Jewish songs Francis, who dies this week, was not Jewish, but released ‘Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites’ in 1960, which included Yiddish, ...
In the spring of 1998, Pete Seeger headlined a free concert in Central Park celebrating Israel’s 50th birthday, sponsored by the Cantors’ Assembly. The event prompted a critical press release from the ...
In his article “Words of Song,” on Chabad.org, Tzvi Freeman wrote, “You can’t think prayers without speaking them, or speak without thinking them. And they aren’t prayers until you sing them.” In ...