May 11, 2012
Candle lighting this week is at 7:45PM in New York City. Candles lighting time is 18 minutes before sunset, which marks the start of Shabbat. To find the local candle lighting time in your location, Chabad.org has a section of their site for this purpose. Chabad. Org also has links to articles that can [...]
Tags: candle lighting, parsha, Parshat Emor
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May 10, 2012
Globe Tribune.Info is pleased to present the following songs by David Dome, an excellent musician who writes and performs Jewish spiritually themed music. His music can be purchased with ease on Amazon, either as single songs or as albums. It can also be purchased on i Tunes Aromimcha, a song by David Dome
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May 4, 2012
This Shabbat, Parshat Vayakhel Pekudei, candle lighting will be at 7:38 PM in Brooklyn New York. Because this year is not a leap year, some of the weekly Torah readings are doubled up. A leap year, of course has an extra month with four Saturdays on which the Torah must be read Candle lighting, which [...]
Tags: Acharei Mot, candle lighting, Kedoshim, Pesach sheni, Torah reading
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April 23, 2012
During the 33 days after the second day of Passover, many observant Jews do not listen to instrumental music. Following is some a cappella music from Sam Tsui and Matisyahu Following is an a cappella version of “One Day” by Matisyahu.
Tags: a cappella, Matisyahu, Sam Tsui
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April 10, 2012
Kosher wine has come a long way since the early 1960′s. Kosher wine in America used to be like cough syrup. It was that bad. Now we have kosher wine to fit all tastes, from insanely dry to sickeningly sweet, and everything in between. Jewish music has likewise become a lot more diverse. Following [...]
Tags: Passover music, Pesach music, Songs for Passover, songs for Pesach
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April 5, 2012
Following is a selection of songs related to the Passover Seder, some of which are “studio” type recordings and others that are meant to instruct the listeners, in order that they can learn how to sing the songs themselves. The following is the Hallel prayer, sung to a Moroccan melody. The following are the [...]
Tags: chad gadya, Hallel, Passover, Passover seder, Pesach, Pesach seder
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March 16, 2012
This week, Shay Fogelman of Haaretz continued his in depth look at Lev Tahor and its charismatic leader, Shlomo Helbrans. There are plenty of oddities to pique the interest of the reader. The burq style dress of the women, the manner in which followers of Helbrans back out of the room when they take [...]
Tags: Burqa Jews, Lev Tahor, Shlomo Helbrans, St Agathe
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March 11, 2012
Agence France Presse reports that Zuhair al-Qaissi, the commander of the armed wing of the, a large militant group with close ties to Gaza’s Hamas rulers assumed room temperature and his place among his alleged 70 virgins when he was killed in an Israeli missile strike. In addition, al-Qaissi’s blue sedan was rendered [...]
Tags: Gilad Shalit, Israel and GAza, Popular Resistance Committee, retaliatory raid, Zuhair al-Qaissi
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March 5, 2012
There has been a Jewish presence in America for most of its 400 year history. Along with Yiddish, there is a variety of English infused with Jewish terms that is on its way to becoming another Jewish language. In addition, there is an entire genre of Jewish music that is at least partially in English [...]
Tags: Jewish English, Jewish music, Jews in America, Moshe Hecht
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March 5, 2012
One of the great mysteries of history is what happened to the Ten Lost Tribes of biblical times. There are various theories. May believe that they simply melted into the nations around them. Others believe that these lost Jews simply maintain a covert identity. One group that has attracted attention as a possible lost tribe [...]
Tags: Afghans, Israelites, lost tribes, Pashtuns
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