It's time to make Chanukah music
My kids love Top 40 music. Consequently I hear a lot of it in the car. We jump back and forth from Kiss 108 to...
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Making Musical Connections, 2012-style
While the brochures are getting ready for their long journey to your mail box, tickets to all BJMF events are now on sale. And while...
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Imagining the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on its 99th Anniversary
What is about this fire that draws us so intensely? Why has this one event become such a touchstone for political, artistic, and cultural work? ...
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Boston Gay Men's Chorus presents: Love's Voice
Love’s Voice looks at the power and beauty of love. The featured work of the program is For a Look or a Touch by the renowned...
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My Summer Music Seen
Before September comes and I get totally wrapped up in fundraising and planning the 2011 festival, I wanted to share some of the music that...
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B'nai Or to host a cappella group
At B’nai Or, congregants get up during services to spontaneously dance to the tune of the prayers. Led by a rabbi clad in jeans, they...
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The Great Debate: Dylan or Simon
While I disagree with the article, this is a facinating discussion. The readers comments at the end definitely counter balance the author's Pro-Paul-Simon stance. From...
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Happy 90th Birthday, Gerda Lerner!
"I am a Jewish woman, I am an immigrant, and I will no longer permit others to define me." A Death of One's Own (1978)....
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Hello from The New Vilna Review
In December of 2007 I started an online Jewish journal called the New Vilna Review, which is dedicated to exploring questions of modern Jewish identity...
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New Poetry and Fiction at the New Vilna Review
This week we decided to update the New Vilna Review website a little sooner. Visitors to the site will find some great new poetry, including...
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