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The complex Jewish past of Bob Dylan

From bar mitzvah boy to born-again Christian releasing gospel music, then back to Judaism, the singer-songwriter is a walking contradiction of Jewishness

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Bob Dylan at his son's bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, September 20, 1983. (AP Photo/Zavi Cohen)

Transformative Orthodox composer Yigal Calek

Transformative Orthodox composer Yigal Calek

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

2024 in review: Jewish music

2024 in review: Jewish music

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Benny Friedman (Image: Barveh Ezagui)

There’s light! Venue steps in to host rejected Jewish singer

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Gracie Abrams attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards (Getty Images)

How Jewish is singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams?

2 min read

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

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

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

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

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Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

A Holocaust survivor who developed a unique flair for music

By Gloria Tessler

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November 29, 2024 00:00

Gifted violinist and survivor of the Budapest Ghettto, György Pauk

The Charedi leaver who is singing the Yiddishe blues

Musician Pini Brown left the Chasidic community three years ago. Now his story is the subject of an award-winning short which will be shown at the UKJFF next week

By Hilary Freeman

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November 5, 2024 17:07

Strumming: Pini Brown

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

The lead singer of the rock band told the activist to ‘hop up on stage’ and make his comments to the audience

By Imogen Garfinkel

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November 1, 2024 11:16

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

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

With release of new biopic about Jewish visionary who discovered the Beatles, the JC reflects on his short but triumphant life

By Eliana Jordan

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October 30, 2024 17:20

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)

Pop singer and tour manager Melvyn J Taub mourned

He worked in the advertising department for the Jewish Chronicle in the early 1980s, the same decade in which his music career took off

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October 1, 2024 10:55

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)

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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

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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

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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)

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