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Silas Anastacio

Aug 19, 2026, 4:16 AM

“A Place for Us” Celebrates CIP’s 90 Years at Sala São Paulo

With a stellar cast from Brazilian musical theater, the show brought together Broadway and Brazil in a night of music, memory, and emotion that will remain in the history of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP). A packed Sala São Paulo,...

Aug 11, 2026, 6:25 PM

Songs of Survival and Hope – Sagui Dekel-Chen

On a warm August night before an audience of thousands at Kibbutz Nir Oz, a place that sits almost adjacent to Israel’s border with Gaza, Sagui Dekel-Chen hosted Songs of Survival and Hope. A concert that once seemed barely...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:49 AM

Boy George–We Will Dance Again

Moshe stared at the screen of his iPhone, smiled, and said, " Mordechai, this one video makes life worth living." "Which one?" Mordechai inquired. "The one by that English-born Catholic lad from a working-class Irish family. The one he sings with...

Michael Feldstein

Aug 10, 2026, 7:56 AM

Can We Separate the Music From the Man?

Credit: ChatGPT

Last month, a new documentary about Shlomo Carlebach titled The Darkest Light was released. The film explores Rabbi Carlebach's extraordinary musical and spiritual legacy while directly confronting allegations of sexual abuse made by numerous women. A central voice in...

Aug 7, 2026, 12:30 AM

The Song That United Two Traditions

A Journey Through Jewish-Muslim Spain In early July, I traveled through Spain for two weeks with our team as part of our EU-funded project, "Bridges of Understanding." We visited eleven cities where Muslims and Jews had lived side by side...

Janet Bond Brill

Aug 3, 2026, 6:34 PM

The Nazis took the piano. They couldn’t take the songs

How a family on Mila Street sang through the destruction of everything they owned, and why the music outlived the men who came for them

Silas Anastacio

Aug 1, 2026, 10:09 AM

The Jews Who Helped Build Broadway: Inside A Place for Us–From Broadway to Brazil

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When we think of Broadway, dazzling musicals, bright theaters, and legendary performers immediately come to mind. What many don’t realize is that much of this history was shaped by Jewish immigrants who found in art a way to rebuild...

Jul 31, 2026, 8:18 AM

The Musician I Let Pass Me By

I shuffled through songs in the car as I searched for parking in Beverly Hills on a Tuesday afternoon. The stakes were high. I needed the perfect song to end my drive with. As I heard the first chords,...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 26, 2026, 6:05 AM

Brazil’s Música pela Cura Brings Shlomo Mintz for Kids With Cancer

Presented by TUCCA - Association for Children and Adolescents with Cancer, the concert series that has raised funds for medical care since 2000 pairs Mintz with a young Brazilian student orchestra in a night linking music, memory and healing. Israeli...

Jul 16, 2026, 4:50 AM

A Brief History of the Nigun

Actual photo from the creation of the first nigun.

Perhaps one of the most well-known, yet least understood schools of music in all of Judaism is the deceitfully simplistic nigun. These wordless tunes have been chanted throughout generations. It is the soundtrack of our people. But where did...

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