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Despite growing antisemitism, unity and dialogue headline emotional German-Jewish music festival

From klezmer to classical, The International Days of Jewish Music celebrates the diversity and depth of Jewish music in venues across Germany

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

The Klezmer Trio perform in Heringsdorf as part of the International Days of Jewish Music Festival. (Photo: Geert Maciejewski)

As1one say 'Music is the best thing to deliver our message' (Photo: Andrew Zach/ East Deck Creative Inc)

The Israeli-Palestinian boy band with the harmony factor

6 min read

Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

Strumming: Pini Brown

The Charedi leaver who is singing the Yiddishe blues

By Hilary Freeman

5 min read

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke walked offstage following heckling by a pro-Palestine audience member (Photo: @RadioheadClub)

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke walks offstage after being heckled by pro-Palestine protester

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Beatles manager Brian Epstein (second from right) with the Beatles at London Airport on 22 September, 1964. Epstein, who died in 1967, is the focus of a new biopic called Midas Man. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The man with the golden touch: Who was ‘the fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein?

By Eliana Jordan

4 min read

Performing Just Wanted I Always Wanted in 1982 on Top of the Pops with Mari Wilson and the Wilsations (Melvyn J Taub is centre of the trio of backing singers)

Pop singer and tour manager Melvyn J Taub mourned

3 min read

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Rob Rinder

In times like these, we need the unique comfort music gives us

For a while I lost my faith in Bruckner – whose music was played in Vienna on the night of Kristallnacht

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September 18, 2024 10:22

Yannick Nezet-Seguin at the David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City. (Getty Images for Netflix)

Jeremy Sassoon find his mojo singing his way through Jewish musical history

From psychiatry to jazz, Sassoon wants to lift the spirits of his audience

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

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September 17, 2024 13:44

Jeremy Sassoon (Photo: Andrew Perry)

Madonna shares photos of adopted twin daughters celebrating their ‘bat mitzvahs’

The pop star adopted the Malawian orphans Stella and Estere when they were five

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

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September 11, 2024 09:17

Reading from the Torah (Image: Instagram)

Oy-asis! We already have broiges from the last time you insulted me

The Gallagher brothers are not exactly my Wonderwall. When they last played in my local park, Liam criticised me in front of 70,000 fans

By Angela Epstein

2 min read

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September 2, 2024 14:39

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - AUGUST 28: An Oasis fan is photographed next to a new mural depicting Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, created by Manchester street artist Pic.One.Art., on the side of the Sifters Record store in Burnage on August 28, 2024 in Manchester, England. Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, estranged for over 15 years, have announced they are due to reunite their band Oasis for a series of concerts next summer. The Manchester band had a string of hits in the 1990's including Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Don't Look Back In Anger. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Burning Man pays tribute to Nova Festival victims

Huge art installation at desert rave honours victims killed by Hamas at Nova Festival

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

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August 30, 2024 15:30

Nova festival is commemorated at Burning Man with a huge art instillation created by Israel artists (Photo: Instagram)

The ‘Jewish Beatles’ sing for the community to come together (right now)

Rabbi Akiva, Bar Markovich, Asaf Flumendorf and chazan Jonny Turgel will be rocking out in September

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August 28, 2024 15:04

The Jewish Beatles: Chazan Jonny Turgel, Asaf Flumendorf, Rabbi Akiva Rosenblatt and Bar Markovich

Review: At Home Farm, Nick Mulvey: A magical night of food and music

This was the second night featuring the Mercury Prize-nominated indie-folk artist

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August 22, 2024 11:26

A warm presence: Nick Mulvey playing at Home Farm

The song I wrote for The Tattooist of Auschwitz is my most profound ever

The song Barbra Streisand sang for the TV series is up for an Emmy. I meet the man who wrote its lyrics

4 min read

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August 7, 2024 12:52

Music to one's ears: Charlie Midnight in his studio

First trailer for Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet released

Timothée Chalamet stars as the legendary Jewish American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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July 24, 2024 16:16

Chalamet as Dylan (Searchlight pictures)

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