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Roger Waters seen performing in Berlin. His onstage costume resembling a Nazi officer has come under scrutiny. (Photo/JTA-Adam Berry-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

US State Department calls recent Roger Waters concert ‘antisemitic’

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman June 8, 2023
A Jewish wedding in Philadelphia, circa 1960. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Mara Swift)
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The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 5, 2023June 5, 2023
Matthew Woody as Feivel in the Children’s Theatre Company production of "An American Tail: The Musical" in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo/Glen Stubbe Photography)
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‘An American Tail,’ the classic animated film about Russian-Jewish mice who immigrate to America, is now a musical

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov May 24, 2023May 25, 2023
Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco performs at Manny's, December 2019. (Photo/Gail Rubman)
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Jewish Folk Chorus of S.F. returns with tribute to Oakland klezmer legend Adrienne Cooper

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
Performance of the Kovno ghetto orchestra. (Photo/Courtesy US.. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inMusic

‘Songs of Truth’ brings music of composers slain in Holocaust to Bay Area

by Dan Pine May 22, 2023May 22, 2023
The Ferris Wheels, with Rabbi Yehuda Ferris front and center, plays at the Bay Street Mall menorah lighting in Emeryville in 2021. (Photo/Courtesy)
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The Ferris Wheels, a Chabad rabbi’s cover band, mix classic rock with Jewish ruach

by Dan Pine May 11, 2023May 12, 2023
Tupac Shakur (left) met Leila Steinberg when he was a 17-year-old senior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. She managed him from 1989 to 1993. (Photo/Kathy Crawford)
Posted inMusic

‘Dear Mama’: Leila Steinberg, Tupac’s first manager, sees new docuseries as a chance to heal

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 9, 2023June 22, 2023
“The Scottsboro Boys" has a nearly all-Black cast and uses the structure of a minstrel show as a narrative device to expose the racism of white Southerners. (Photo/42nd Street Moon)
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‘Scottsboro Boys’: Kander and Ebb’s musical about racism and injustice playing in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2023May 11, 2023
Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for "Parade" at New York City Center, Nov. 1, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Bruce Glikas-WireImage-GettyImages)
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‘Parade’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ each nab 6 Tony nominations in a big year for Jewish Broadway

by Andrew Lapin and JTA May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Or Bareket will appear at the Black Cat in San Francisco May 11-13. (Photo/Maria Jarzyna)
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Multi-dimensional Israeli bassist Or Bareket coming to S.F.’s Black Cat

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 1, 2023May 1, 2023

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