By Eileen Reynolds
Searching for the best in December holiday tunes, a music preservation group found few Hanukkah sing-a-longs. But Jews have created plenty of Christmas cheer.
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By Eileen Reynolds
To say that you’ll never think of Lot’s wife the same way after seeing
Maya Beiser’s “Elsewhere,” a new “cello opera” that recently played at BAM’s
Next Wave Festival, would be a gross understatement. In the Genesis story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s wife has no name — let alone speaking lines — and is primarily an example of the fate that awaits those who disobey divine instruction: “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
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By Eileen Reynolds
With Barbra Streisand making a homecoming to Brooklyn, we take a tour of her old haunts: from Choy’s Chinese Restaurant to the Yeshiva of Brooklyn.
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By Eileen Reynolds
Even without its clever premise, Jacob Garchik’s latest album would still make for great listening. This is the sort of music that makes you stop in your tracks and mutter, “What
is that?” It’s not every day that one hears a trombone choir — let alone one augmented with sousaphone and slide trumpet — playing warm, enveloping tunes that sound like long-lost spirituals.
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By Eileen Reynolds
Can’t get enough of Philip Glass? Eileen Reynolds offers a minute-by minute account of ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ now onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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As First Maharats Graduate, Roles for Orthodox Women Take Leap Forward
Samantha Power's Support for Israel Is Deeply Personal 
Why I Only Date Jewish Guys
Barbra Streisand Visits Western Wall After Landing in Israel With Puppy
Taking Aim at Corporate Jewish Burial Business
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