Andrew Muchin
By Andrew Muchin
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News Could This Be Kosher HOG Heaven?
Jay Rubin straddled his Harley, checked the mezuza on the fuselage and rode the 800 miles from his Falls Church, Va., home to Milwaukee, scene of the Harley-Davidson Motor Co.’s centennial celebration over the Labor Day weekend. Rubin joined 200,000 riders for five days of concerts, bar-hopping and ear-splitting excursions around town. But as the…
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News Sephardic Music Comes Out of the Shadows
More than faithfully reproducing centuries-old Sephardic melodies, an emerging group of American Jewish songwriters is developing a Jewish world-beat sound that includes Sephardic melodies and instruments, whether sung in Hebrew, English, Ladino (Sephardic Judeo-Spanish) or even Yiddish. In St. Louis, for example, Jewish Renewal Rabbi James Stone Goodman improvises darting lines on the oud, the…
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Culture Out of Mississippi: Struggling To Revive the Dixie Diaspora
As long as there has been a Diaspora, the fate of struggling communities has mobilized Jewish philanthropists and planners, who pour in resources and personnel everywhere, from the former Soviet Union to North Africa. For Macy Hart, those kinds of efforts are needed closer to home, in places such as Selma, Ala., and Natchez, Miss….
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