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’I’m telling the story of Jews in Britain – and I need your help’

Composer Benjamin Till has an ambitious new project, telling 1000 years of Anglo-Jewish history

By Benjamin Till

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Five members of the Mosaic singing group at the New West End shul, including composer in residence Benjamin Till (right).

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Youth choir made up of Palestinians and Israelis advances to second round of ‘America’s Got Talent’

By Eliana Jordan

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Still from Immanuel's video, Habay'ta (YouTube)

Immanuel College

Immanuel shortlisted for schools’ creative award

By JC Reporter

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The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West in concert

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The great healing power of musical instruments

3 min read

Anna Calvi headlined the Great Escape Festival in 2019 in Brighton, England (Photo: Getty Images)

BDS

Brian Eno and Massive Attack back anti-Israel boycott campaign against music festival

By Felix Pope

2 min read

Two performances by the Jerusalem Quartet in Amsterdam have been cancelled (Photo: Facebook)

Netherlands

Amsterdam concert hall accused of ‘capitulating to terrorism’ as it cancels Jerusalem Quartet

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Amy Winehouse

Zutons singer reveals he warned Amy Winehouse her version of ‘Valerie’ would flop

By Elisa Bray

1 min read

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The singers putting on a Jewish-themed show to ‘celebrate this wonderful culture’

Tanya Truman and Brady Isaacs Pearce will star in “A Night of Jewish Joy”

By Elisa Bray

1 min read

May 9, 2024 16:28

Tanya Truman has produced and will star in A Night of Jewish Joy

The biblical story of Song of Songs hits the London stage

Jewish and Arab Ofra Daniel represents the half of Israel the haters prefer to ignore. She tells our writer how her identity is bound up in her musical about being trapped in a loveless marriage

By John Nathan

4 min read

May 7, 2024 17:29

How Kabbalah and karaoke took me from science to music

Meet the scientist who found the answers he sought through music and Kabbalah, and has combined them to make his first album

By Elisa Bray

5 min read

April 3, 2024 17:20

The opera fans who saved Jews from the Nazis

Meet the musician whose new album tells the extraordinary story of two Sunderland sisters who saved 29 Jews from the Nazis

By Elisa Bray

5 min read

April 3, 2024 16:51

By Elisa Bray

Shul music has given me a taste for melancholia

Every synagogue has a different approach, but I’m grateful I grew up with a choir and organ

3 min read

April 3, 2024 08:04

‘They lit my Jewish fire’: How Matisyahu blew away the boycott mob

The Chasidic reggae star tells the JC about getting cancelled, threatened and abused on his recent tour of America – and what he did to fight back

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

March 20, 2024 16:04

‘They lit my Jewish fire’: How Matisyahu blew away the boycott mob

Start-up producing ‘deepfakes’ of tracks by Amy Winehouse and Drake faces legal action

Voicify, which operates online as Jammable, has received a legal letter accusing it of infringing copyright

By JC Reporter

1 min read

March 18, 2024 16:54

Drake picks up his Brit Award (Photo: Getty Images)

Teenager releases song in aid of cancer charity

Proceeds from the debut track will go towards Future Dreams

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

March 15, 2024 10:47

Mollie Freedman in a music video for her debut release, 'Sorry is not okay'

How saxophonist Benny Green’s son is keeping the family’s musical tradition alive

Leo Green thought of himself as a musician before he started playing an instrument

By Francine White

5 min read

March 12, 2024 16:12

Showman: Leo Green playing at a concert in support of Prostate Cancer UK, in 2015 Credit: Alamy

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Music

’I’m telling the story of Jews in Britain – and I need your help’

Youth choir made up of Palestinians and Israelis advances to second round of ‘America’s Got Talent’

Immanuel shortlisted for schools’ creative award

The great healing power of musical instruments

Brian Eno and Massive Attack back anti-Israel boycott campaign against music festival

Amsterdam concert hall accused of ‘capitulating to terrorism’ as it cancels Jerusalem Quartet

Zutons singer reveals he warned Amy Winehouse her version of ‘Valerie’ would flop

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