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From the cover of "Ayn Od," a new album by Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks and Briah
Posted inMusic

New music from Berkeley makes Jewish worship ‘transformative’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 26, 2018September 26, 2018
Book of J duo Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg
Posted inMusic

Where delta blues, queer liturgy and Yiddish protest songs meet

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 21, 2018December 3, 2025
The all-woman klezmer band Isle of Klezbos, coming this fall to the Sonoma State University Jewish Music Series (Photo/Angela Jimenez)
Posted inMusic

Again, Sonoma State asks: What is Jewish music?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018
Devon Strolovitch in the studio at KALW, where he is a host and producer
Posted inJewish Life

Q&A: A radio producer whose call letters are Ph.D.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 27, 2018August 27, 2018
Cantor Linda Hirschhorn performing at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, Jan. 2016 (Photo/Sandra Morris)
Posted inUncategorized

Cantor now hitting right notes as synagogue’s ‘rebbe’

by Rob Gloster August 27, 2018August 27, 2018
From the cover of “Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America” by Ari Y. Kelman
Posted inBooks

Why church music rocks, and what synagogues can learn from it

by Andrew Muchin August 13, 2018August 13, 2018
Inge Ginsberg, 94, in “Death Metal Grandma” (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inFilm

‘Death Metal Grandma’ and other short docs are tiny gems

by Sue Fishkoff July 19, 2018
Rachel Michelberg (second from left) is a longtime cantorial soloist who is playing Mother Abbess in an upcoming production of 'Sound of Music' in Los Altos.
Posted inMusic

She sings like a cantor and acts like a nun

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 18, 2018July 18, 2018
Israeli singer-songwriter Nurit Hirsh
Posted inCulture

‘Bashanah Haba’ah’ singer-songwriter Nurit Hirsh’s first trip to Bay Area

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 10, 2018
The cast of “Curren$y,” Dan Wolf’s all-female hip-hop reinterpretation of "Merchant of Venice" (Photo/Bethanie Hines)
Posted inCulture

A ‘Merchant of Venice’ for our times — all female, all hip-hop

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 5, 2018July 11, 2018

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