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Kanye West ‘Sincerely’ Apologizes To Jewish Community

Kanye West has apologized to the Jewish community for his many previous antisemitic remarks that have caused pain to a lot of people over the past year.In the early hours of Tuesday (December 26) morning, Yeezy took to his recently-reactivated Instagram account to post an apology written in Hebrew. West promised that he is “committed to making amends” with the Jewish community.“I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any […]

todayDecember 26, 2023 1

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The Jewish world after October 7 – opinion

I spent the Shabbat of October 6 and 7 in the Old City of Jerusalem.I went down to the Western Wall on Friday night for Shabbat and Simchat Torah celebrations. Dancing with the Torah and bringing in Shabbat at the holiest site in Judaism, you could not help but feel overwhelmed with joy. Little did I know what was to come.Saturday morning, I was woken, along with thousands of […]

todayDecember 11, 2023

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Virginia Jewish group slams art festival over Hanukkah lighting

A Jewish community group in Virginia has slammed the organizer of a local art and music festival over its decision not to go ahead with a menorah lighting ceremony. LoveLight Placemaking, a nonprofit which hosts the 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival in Williamsburg, declined a proposal by a community rabbi to hold the lighting ceremony at its upcoming Dec. 10 event. It claimed in a statement the move was […]

todayDecember 4, 2023 2

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In Bosnia, gentile musicians work to preserve the country’s Sephardic Jewish tradition

A historic Jewish cemetery overlooks Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (RNS photo/David I. Klein) SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that with Jagoda’s death, the music of Sephardic Jews was in danger of being lost forever. “The Sephardic music and culture, their proverbs and literature, is a part of […]

todayNovember 21, 2023 4

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Death Toll From Oct. 7 Music Festival Massacre Rises to 350 | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Pesach Benson / TPS | 6 Kislev 5784 – Saturday, November 18, 2023

Photo Credit: Courtesy: Neta DavidIsraeli Border Police rescuing people from the Supernova Music Festival on Kibbutz Re'im on Oct. 7, 2023. The death toll from Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack at the Nova Music Festival was raised from 260 to at 350, with officials stressing the number could rise more as new information surfaces. The increase was based on data from Israel’s National Insurance Institute, which found that the number of victims […]

todayNovember 18, 2023 5

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October 7 massacre proves #MeToo doesn’t apply to Jewish women – opinion

The year 2017 saw a marked increase in global awareness of sexual violence when the #MeToo hashtag went viral and, as its website indicates, “woke up the world to the magnitude of the problem.” Almost overnight, what started as a grassroots movement in 2006 by Tarana Burke became a global force with millions of people from all walks of life saying, “Me too.”This global, survivor-led movement empowers the fight against […]

todayNovember 18, 2023

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Shock, rage, increasing unease: UK’s Jewish community wrestles with response to war | Israel-Hamas war

Two days after Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, hundreds of British Jews waved Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, at a vigil outside Downing Street.The event, organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council, and attended by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, was a powerful show of communal solidarity as the enormity of Hamas’s atrocities […]

todayOctober 21, 2023 8

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Amid the Horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish Musicians Composed Songs of Survival | Arts & Culture

By Douglas Starr Photographs by David Degner In 1988, Mark Ludwig, a tenured violist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was between events at New York City’s Carnegie Hall when he wandered into his favorite used bookshop. He picked up a biography of Leo Baeck, the 20th-century German rabbi and scholar. Baeck had been imprisoned during World War II at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. He’d survived, settled in London […]

todayAugust 29, 2023 2

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The ‘Jewish indie rave’ music festival returns to Gush Etzion

The Aharit Hayamim Festival is back in Gush Etzion again, with 12 hours of live music on two stages. What began as  a family tribute to a beloved musician who died young has morphed into a large event showcasing what the organizers call a “Jewish indie rave.”Religious-oriented musicians who draw inspiration from the Psalms and other biblical sources will be on hand, as well as ethnic world-music players, ranging from […]

todayJuly 29, 2023 2

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