Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 22-28
Dikla Kadosh
March 21, 2008
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for March 22-28
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Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15
Dikla Kadosh
March 8, 2008
Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15
Celebrity-studded event to raise funds for Sderot
Dikla Kadosh
February 22, 2008
Two days after Hollywood\’s biggest night — the 80th annual Academy Awards — the Los Angeles Jewish community will be treated to a celebrity-studded red carpet event of its own: Ninette Tayeb, Israel\’s reigning pop idol, as well as Israeli-born hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari; Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; the Oscar-nominated \”Beaufort\” delegation; and the creme-de-la-creme of the Jewish and Israeli communities will gather at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills for an important benefit concert, \”Live for Sderot.\”
Israelity Tour teases trips with an Israeli beat
Dikla Kadosh
February 14, 2008
In a move that echoes this fusion of cultural exposure and music, the Taglit-Birthright Israel Alumni Association, recently rebranded as Birthright Israel Next, has launched the Israelity Tour — a seven-city West Coast concert extravaganza aimed at exposing young American Jews to Israeli culture, promoting the free 10-day educational trips to Israel for 18- to 26-year-olds, as well as cultivating the connections alumni of the trip have already made to the Holy Land and one another.
JDub worldwide concerts add synergy to the season
George Robinson
December 7, 2007
The buzzword in business circles is synergy. That\’s what JDub Records was looking for when it began to think about its third annual Chanukah event.
And when Daniel Brenner, vice president for education at the Birthright Israel Foundation, told JDub heads Aaron Bisman and Jacob Harris that he was interested in doing a project with the nonprofit music label, the buzz of synergy filled the air.
‘Inside Idan Raichel’ — it’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it
Danielle Berrin
November 30, 2007
Idan Raicehl concert, Ed Begley Jr. presents Thomas Edison Energy Awards.
Master of musical fusion blends klezmer with salsa
Roberto Loiederman
November 23, 2007
Practitioners of world music are constantly exploring ways to fuse disparate musical strains in new and interesting ways. Given all that, it should not be a surprise that there is a new group that combines klezmer with salsa. Odessa/Havana — \”The Explosive Jewish/Cuban Musical Mash-Up\” — a musical project that brings together these two musical traditions in a jazz context will perform at the Skirball Cultural Center at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29.
Black Eyed Peas and the Commitments rock the walls of Jerusalem
Jessica Steinberg
September 21, 2007
\”We\’re missing the MTV Awards for this because we feel it\’s a very important \’cause … this is the Holy Land,\” said Fergie. It was the Black Eyed Peas\’ second concert in Israel, having performed in Tel Aviv last summer. But it was their first time performing in Jerusalem, where they headlined Jerusalem Rocks! a nonprofit international music festival celebrating peace and unity.
Dual concerts embrace the best of ‘banished music’
Tom Tugend
April 13, 2007
Almost seven decades after the Nazis murdered and banished many of Europe\’s most renowned composers, a group of German artists will honor the musicians\’ work and lives at two local concerts.\n
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