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The Schmooze Bob Dylan for the 12-Year-Old Set
If Bob Dylan were 12 years old, he’d sound like Ned The Kids Dylan. That’s because Ned The Kids Dylan, a pre-pubescent singer-songwriter from Northhampton, England, sounds an awful lot like the bard with the birth name Robert Zimmerman — only with a voice that hasn’t dropped yet. Ned The Kids Dylan, who tours Great…
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The Schmooze Israel at Eurovision ‘Only for Him’
Israel is hoping for a big win at the Eurovision Song Contest in mid-May with a performance of “Rak bishvilo” (“Only for Him”) by Moran Mazor. Mazor, who will turn 22 during the contest, earned the right to represent Israel in Malmö, Sweden, the site of this year’s event, by defeating nine other finalists in…
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The Schmooze Streisand Will Give First Concert in Israel
Babs is heading to the Holy Land. Barbara Streisand will sing on June 18 at the opening ceremony of Shimon Peres’s annual Presidential Conference, which this year will honor the president’s 90th birthday. Although the 70-year-old iconic singer has visited Israel privately a number of times, this will be her first official public appearance there….
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The Schmooze Israeli-Iranian Singer Performs at UN
The Israeli-Iranian singer Rita performed at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Rita performed in Hebrew, English and Farsi at the “Tunes for Peace” concert on Tuesday night – just the third full-fledged concert at the U.N. venue. The singer, who goes by just her first name, but whose full name is Rita Yahan-Farouz, performed…
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The Schmooze How Many Sins Can One Hasid Commit?
What do you do if you’re “a Yid who thinks he’s a Goy”? You go to your gentile friend “Boris,” of course, for help writing “The Aveirah Song.” Aveirah is Hebrew for “sin,” which, “Boris,” being a gentile and all, would be an expert on. And what kinds of sins does a gentile (or wannabe-gentile)…
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The Schmooze Jews Scoop Up Juno Nominations
The nominees for the 2013 Juno Awards have been announced, and among them are Jewish musicians Drake, Leonard Cohen, Adam Cohen and Toronto group Jaffa Road, which was nominated for Best World Music Album for “Where The Light Gets In.” The Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, will be given out on April…
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The Schmooze Gustavo Dudamel May Not Return to Israel
Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel is reconsidering future engagements in Israel after being interrogated by security services upon arriving in and leaving from Ben Gurion airport. Dudamel, 32, who is music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, was in Israel to conduct the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for a week-long series…
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The Schmooze Cantorial Concert a First for Barclays Center
Who knew the man behind the Brooklyn homecomings of Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand had a thing for heimishe melodies? Bruce Ratner, the developer and majority owner of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, which opened last September with a Jay-Z show and hosted borough native Barbra Streisand a month later, holds a special place in…
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