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Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein and released in 2017. [1] The film profiles a number of musicians, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who made a mark on contemporary culture by writing many of the most beloved Christmas music standards even though they were Jewish ...
The Hanukkah Sessions are a series of video presentations of popular songs originally written or performed by Jewish artists, as covered by musicians Greg Kurstin and Dave Grohl. Kurstin and Grohl covered eight songs per year for this project, and released one per night to digital streaming platforms for each night of Hanukkah in the years 2020 ...
"Ma'oz Tzur" (Hebrew: מעוז צור), also a widely known English version as "Rock of Ages", is a Jewish liturgical poem or piyyut. It is written in Hebrew, and is usually sung on the holiday of Hanukkah, after lighting the festival lights. Its six stanzas correspond to five events of Jewish history and a hope for the future.
President Barack Obama commended "their outstanding performance", in which they performed a barbershop quartet. [1] [13] The Maccabeats returned to the White House on December 9, 2015 to perform at the afternoon reception of the White House Hanukkah Party. [14] The Maccabeats have attracted both Jewish and non-Jewish fans via the Internet and ...
As compared with other Jewish Holidays, Hanukkah is still somewhat muted, with less gravitas than, say, Yom Kippur or Passover, and not equal in weight to Christmas for Christians.
Hanukkah starts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day roughly once every 15 years. Since 1900, there have been five years that the first night of Hanukkah began on Christmas Day : 2024, 2005, 1959 ...
Magevet is a collegiate Jewish a cappella singing group at Yale University. The group's repertoire includes liturgical, traditional, and modern arrangements of Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli songs. Each year, Magevet conducts domestic and/or international tours and numerous weekend-length tours throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
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