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“If the U.K. television and film industry colludes with acts contrary to this legislation, organizations are themselves likely to be in breach.”
The U.S. ambassador to Israel and his predecessor were special surprise guests at the United Hatzalah event held for Sukkot.
The former Smiths front man has expressed his love for the Israeli people in the past.
“It’s terrorism in my view,” said Heather Waters, founder of the Richmond International Film Festival, of intimidation tactics used to harm the event.
The Jewish Representative Council to Manchester in a letter to the concert venue stated it was “deeply concerned” about the upcoming performance.
The 34-year-old singer visited the site of the Supernova music festival, Yad Vashem, and the Dead Sea during her weeklong trip.
The show has a “deep sense of certain kinds of Jewish language and knowledge that is sometimes absent in some treatments of U.S. Jewish life,” scholar Jeremy Dauber told JNS.
The British singer was slated to perform for the first time in Istanbul on Oct. 7.
“It’s built out of language—contributions from people all over” the city, Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson told JNS.
“We much prefer to see their work on the screen, and not them in court,” stated Rory Lancman, senior counsel of the Brandeis Center.
NY exhibit underscores how medieval Christians both sang songs from Hebrew Bible and persecuted Jews
“Here you sing these Psalms every day, yet on Good Friday you go out and you beat up your Jewish neighbors,” Roger Wieck, of the Morgan Library and Museum, told JNS. “I don’t have an answer for you.”
“They reveal the Jewish year not as an app or a feed but as something literally held together by thread and parchment, calibrated by generations who turned those pages on the eve of festivals and fasts,” Chaim Neria told JNS.
