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A man in a wide-brimmed hat plays guitar on stage while singing into a microphone
Posted inBay Area

Harbin Hot Springs axes Hanukkah concert after online ‘threats of violence’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 24, 2024December 26, 2024
A black woman sings with a choir in robes behind her
Posted inMusic

San Francisco’s Glide church may be the ‘only place where a Jewish girl can run the gospel choir’

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
"Esther Denouncing Haman" by Ernest Normand, 1888. 
The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther incorrectly references the Book of Esther as part of the Torah. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTheater

New Lehrhaus class will unpack opera’s fixation on Biblical tales

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller December 18, 2024December 18, 2024
a cluster of musicians play off to the side of a stage as a black and white film plays above them
Posted inMusic

Local musicians reanimate 1937 Yiddish horror film ‘The Dybbuk’ at JCCSF

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 17, 2024December 17, 2024
a male singer, two male guitarists, and a woman playing an instrument that is out of frame, rock out in the crowded, book-lined NPR Tiny Desk Concert venue
Posted inMusic

Promising ‘no stupid Hanukkah songs,’ The Leevees strive for a ‘two-song solution’

by Jim Sullivan December 3, 2024December 3, 2024
a woman plays violin on stage
Posted inMusic

Classical ensemble, coming to Bay Area, still envisions Arab-Jewish harmony

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2024November 18, 2024
four musicians sit together playing
Posted inMusic

Four world artists found common ground in music. They hope to find more in benefit concert for Israeli and Palestinian aid orgs.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 12, 2024December 17, 2024
And old man sits smiling and holding a pair of drum sticks
Posted inMusic

Nothing can stop the 99-year-old drummer behind the Holocaust Survivor Band

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 8, 2024November 8, 2024
a woman playing violin and a man playing accordion on stage
Posted inMusic

Paintings and ‘Music of the Holocaust’ concert will mark Kristallnacht in East Bay

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 1, 2024November 1, 2024
a red-haired young man hugs someone in the sunshine
Posted inBay Area

Tension over hiring an Israeli counselor roiled a Bay Area music camp and ended friendships

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 28, 2024October 28, 2024

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