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Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

Torah as music

Ben Heine

ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

David Grossman

Ben Heine

Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

Dove

Ben Heine

Two birds

Hoda Jamal

Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir Performs Sephardic Music

Mar 9th, 2008 by Richard Silverstein | 0

A few weeks ago I read that Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir would be performing Sephardic music tonight. That was a good reason to go since I love early music and Sephardic music. But an even more important reason was that I saw my old band mate, Shira Kammen was performing as accompanist. [...]

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Passover Music: Yehoram Gaon’s ‘Un Cavritico’ (’Had Gadya’)

Apr 4th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 2

As I’ve written here, I’m hoping to do a KBCS radio special on Passover music (just waiting to get some studio time to prepare the show). I’ve decided to try to upload a different Pesach song each day between now and Pesach. Tonight, we hear from Yehoram Gaon’s seminal 1975 album of Sephardic [...]

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