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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016
Ilene Safyan, “Hashkivenu”
Portland, Oregon Age: 63 Song: “Hashkivenu” A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ilene Safyan currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she has become one of the West Coast’s most celebrated Jewish musical artists. Whether in her role as cantor, teacher, performer or composer, Ilene weaves the multicultural musical strands of the Jewish experience into a rich,…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Shir Yaakov Feit, “Broken Hearted”
New Paltz, New York Age: 38 Song: “Broken Hearted” Shir Yaakov engages Jewish, multi-faith, and non-affiliated people around the world, building spiritual communities, facilitating and inspiring communal music, and helping people connect with their inner wisdom and truth. He works in formal and informal educational settings as a spiritual leader, teacher, and musician. Shir Yaakov,…
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Meet the Cat-Loving, Smart-Ass Brooklyn Artist Who ‘Sits With Kaepernick’
A Jewish Brooklyn artist has plastered the borough with “I Sit With Kaepernick” posters backing the now-famous protest of football superstar Colin Kaepernick. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback became part of a nation-wide controversy with his refusal to stand during the national anthem to protest racism and the oppression of black people in America. Designer…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Cantor Pavel Roytman, “Ana Dodi”
Wilmette, Illinois Age: 44 Song: “Ana Dodi” Cantor Pavel Roytman is a native of Nikolaev, Ukraine. At the age of seven, he was accepted as a piano student to a specialized music school for gifted children. He continued his studies in piano and conducting at the Kaliningrad Rachmaninov Music College in Russia and later at…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Hazzan Matthew Klein, “Elohai N’shama”
Rockville, MD Age: 32 Song: “Elohai N’shama” Hazzan Matthew Klein has been with Congregation Beth El since 2011. He is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), where he received a master’s degree in sacred music and investiture as a hazzan. He concentrated in pastoral care, and spent one summer as a…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Jacob “Spike” Kraus, “Ki Eshmera Shabbat”
New York, NY Age: 25 Song: “Ki Eshmera Shabbat” Jacob Spike Kraus is an up and coming singer-songwriter from Boston. He released his first secular studio EP, The King’s Beanie EP, in the spring of 2013, and his first full-length studio album, Shake Off The Dust, in April 2015. Currently based out of Astoria, NY,…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Sarah Aroeste, “Komo Vas a Ser?”
Alford, MA Age: 40 Song: “Komo Vas a Ser?” Sarah Aroeste, inspired by her family’s Sephardic roots in Greece and Macedonia, has spent the last 15 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world. Aroeste writes and sings in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish dialect that originated by Spanish…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Prodezra Beats, “Flip”
Atlanta, Georgia Age: 35 Song: “Flip” Reuben Formey, known by his stage name Prodezra, is an American Jewish rapper and producer based in Savannah, Georgia. He has released two albums, Until When (2009) and Connection Revealed (2011). He is an African-American Orthodox Jewish rapper.
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Jewish Organization Demands Donald Trump Return Donations from White Supremacists
Bend the Arc, a Jewish justice organization, is demanding Donald Trump return contributions from white nationalists. The Republican presidential nominee has continuously collected money from notable figures in the alt-right, including Michael Polignano, editor of a white supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant website, Counter-Currents. Polignano donated $214.12 this election cycle. According to Media Matters, the editor…
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Trump ‘Joked About Gas Chambers,’ Former Employee Tweets
A former senior Trump Organization executive who now backs Hillary Clinton in the presidential race alleged on Twitter today that Donald Trump “joked about gas chambers and ovens” years ago. The tweets came amid a growing furor over comments by Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who made reference on a Philadelphia radio show to the…
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Alleged Jewish Mosque Arsonist Posted Pro-Israel Videos on Facebook
A Jewish man who confessed to an arson attack on a Florida mosque posted videos on his Facebook page produced by mainstream pro-Israel advocacy groups. Florida police charged Joseph M. Schreiber with the September 11 arson of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, a mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people…
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