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Ordained Chabad rabbi and cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz has traveled the world honing his voice and performing skills, and is now part of an effort to revive the classic tradition of “chazzonus,” the quasi-operatic Jewish music of more than a century ago.
The sudden loss of the two top performers led to scrapping the whole things. Ticket-holders were told that they could get refunds.
“After the Tribes” is a bold, four-meter towering structure created from a wrought-iron metal framework—an artistic representation of the biblical priestly breastplate known as the hoshen, which was made up of 12 gemstones representing each one of the tribes.
His newest song, “Tziyon,” originally produced as a closing-credits song for an Israeli movie yet to be released, will be set to a music video of his family’s aliyah, produced in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Ten-year-old Oshri Bitau from Nazareth Illit was discovered to have exceptional piano playing abilities by his piano teacher, but his family could not afford an instrument of their own.
A group of 60 Federation philanthropists, musicians and a celebrity chef work to bridge differences at home and abroad.
Throughout the 105 minutes of directed navigation, a voice programmed by the avant-garde theater collective Rimini Protokoll led 50 of us along the streets on an audiovisual journey that started in a cemetery and ended atop a Jerusalem rooftop.
Part of the band American Authors, he talks about his new album, growing up Jewishly, traveling to Israel on Birthright and how music brings people together—and should be shared.
Of more than 320,000 photos from 200-plus countries, Ariel Tagar’s series, titled “Uganda’s Vespa Club,” is up for the competition’s “professional” category award.
Mirroring Israel’s startup nation mentality in the face of minimal resources, Galit Reismann, founder of TLVStyle, maintains that with no fashion houses, textile factories, governmental support and few large brands to intern for, young designers must become entrepreneurs to survive in a small and competitive industry.
Once hailed as the “Paris of the Middle East,” Beirut is now looking more like Tehran than Western Europe.
Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “The Post,” has been banned in Lebanon due to the famed Jewish-American director’s purported ties with Israel.
