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Vestige of a Jewish gravestone depicting a tzedakah box. The earliest mention of a tzedakah box is in connection with the priest Jehoiada , who crafted a chest with a hole in its lid, positioning it next to the altar 's main entrance on the southern side of the Temple .
Tzedakah box (Pushke), Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish History. Tzedakah (Hebrew: צְדָקָה ṣədāqā, [ts(e)daˈka]) is a Hebrew word meaning "righteousness", but commonly used to signify charity. [1]
Single by Neil Sedaka; B-side "Run Samson Run" Released: 1960: Recorded: 1960: Genre: Traditional pop, soft rock: Length: 2: 32: Label: RCA Victor: Songwriter(s) Neil Sedaka Howard Greenfield [1] Neil Sedaka singles chronology "
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Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
The Captain & Tennille acknowledged Sedaka's authorship as well as his early-1970s comeback by working the phrase "Sedaka is back" into the song's fadeout. On the liner notes to The Tra-La Days Are Over Sedaka added the dedication: "Thanks to Mike Curb for letting me have my way."
JDub Records was a non-profit record and event production company that produced Jewish music and cross cultural musical dialogue. [1] JDub, unlike most record labels, derived half its annual income from foundations and individual donors and the other half from record and ticket sales.
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States.It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an extensive collection of program notes and essays, and thousands of hours of video footage documenting recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.