Ruth Yael
The following is a guest post by Leora Koller-Fox. This week, the birth of NewCAJE was announced. Several months ago my mother, a founder of CAJE, and I started to get young educators involved in the process. I sent out an email to friends and got some...
I didn’t actually make that up: that’s what it’s called. Smithsonian Magazine has a nice friendly little article about Jews playing Bluegrass and old-timey music – and infusing it with Yiddishkeit. Despite the “gee-whiz!”...
“there’s just something ’bout a man with a talis bag…” I’ve mentioned a number of times the absence of a Jewish presence on the radio. Growing up I’d form out all sorts of songs making reference to Christian religion...
Definitely my week for cantorial music. Shira, of the Shira bat Sarah blog just left me a comment on my post “Cantor Leib Glantz: The Man Who Spoke To God” pointing me (and us) to that wonderful cantorial performance. Thanks Shira! (From the...
Shabbat shalom everyone, To help get us in the mood, here’s Michael Levy (aka Klezfiddle1) playing Shalom Aleichem on ancient temple lyre. I first showcased on of Michael’s videos (Yigdal) back in December. He wrote to me recently to let me...
I’ve got a new toy…Deezer. Deezer is a French music on demand service that, as you’d expect, has great coverage of the European scene. One interesting disc I ran across today is Nproject – 1/Berechit from Geneva, Switzerland. ...
As folks may know from my prior post “Diamond Days, or When Is a Jewish music fest not a Jewish music fest” I’m not so keen on Heeb magazine or the Diamond Days music fest. In my post I expressed my frustration with Heeb for sponsoring...
My week for looking at and listening to cantors continues. (Check my previous posts on Cantors Leib Glantz and Erik Contzius.) I was just catching up on the JewSchool blog when I caught a set of posts about cantorial music. Go figure. Zeitgeist. Its in...
My two little ones are having the date of their lives right now. They’re in their second of three weeks at the local Chabad sponsored Camp Gan Israel. I’ll spare you all a recital of all the ‘cute moments’ so far and just say...
