The 24-year-old Nova festival survivor won Israel’s national song contest last night, which determines the country’s entrant for Eurovision
By Eliana Jordan
Israel will vote on its representative for the singing competition this evening
From bar mitzvah boy to born-again Christian releasing gospel music, then back to Judaism, the singer-songwriter is a walking contradiction of Jewishness
By Elisa Bray
London musician infused fervour and aspiration into Jewish life
By Gloria Tessler
This year Eden Golan, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and the world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band hit all the right notes
Charedi star Benny Friedman was booked after JC reported his plight amid rising antisemitism in the arts
By Daniel Ben-David
The daughter of film director JJ Abrams is top of the UK singles chart and may well be the Christmas No1 but is she even Jewish?
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From klezmer to classical, The International Days of Jewish Music celebrates the diversity and depth of Jewish music in venues across Germany
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‘The music saved us’, say pop group As1one, who arrived in LA to record their album the day before October 7
A Holocaust survivor who developed a unique flair for music
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By Hilary Freeman
The lead singer of the rock band told the activist to ‘hop up on stage’ and make his comments to the audience
By Imogen Garfinkel
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He worked in the advertising department for the Jewish Chronicle in the early 1980s, the same decade in which his music career took off
By Rob Rinder
For a while I lost my faith in Bruckner – whose music was played in Vienna on the night of Kristallnacht
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