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Menachem Butler comments on the context of "Hinei Yamim Baim." The Town Crier has a pair of posts on JM hypocrisy. L-O-R has so...

Naftali emails: I was chatting with a fellow musician today, and we came up with a few more peeps that all us JM musicians experience. The ...

The Jewish Week adresses Michael Brecker's need for a stem cell/bone marrow transplant in "The Marrow of Tradition." There wil...

FOX reports: Turkmenistan has banned lip synching performances citing "a negative effect on the development of singing and musical art...

In the spirit of the season, here are the lyrics to Egyptian singer Sha'ban Abd Al-Rahim's song, "Oh, Mr. Arab" as transl...

Esther D. K. is plugging OyBaby.

Eman writes in response to "Love Hurts, Love Bleeds!": My son got dehydrated at his vort. He needed an IV afterwards. Believe i...

Here's some advice from Hans Zimmer: "Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A house will not buy a synthesizer, b...

Ruby Harris writes in response to Though Shalt Not: If a musician is a mentch and a guest is a slob, the musician will be welcome and the gu...

The New York edition of the Jewish week had an interesting article by Esther D. Kustanowitz (not available online) about a recent "Girl...

There's a Workman's Circle event upstate this month called Yidstock from Fri. August 19th through Sunday August 21st. Performances ...

Ben Chorin has an excellent post today. Here's the music part: There were some memorable moments. Natan Sharansky was so moved that he ...

Benyamin Bresky forwards an email from a German listener to his radio program on Israel National Radio. Interesting by the way: you had a sh...

Yonah Lloyd emailed this story a while back: I played a wedding once with Gary Wallin and the groom's choice of expensive leather Bruno ...

Scott Spiegelberg is channeling J.K. Rowling over at Musical Perceptions where he is hosting this week's "Carnival of Music".

Fred Kaplan writes about John Zorn's Masada in this week's Forward. His description of the "Jewish scales" is incorrect. ...

I'm sure this is nothing new, but over the past few years I've become more aware of a number of older musicians -- who used to be ma...

Here are some more reader comments on "Though Shalt Not..." J writes: I for one, was outraged: I am usually one of the better atti...

Here are some comments on yesterday's post, "Though Shalt Not." Jordan Hirsch writes: I do not disagree with the rules per se,...

Orthomom is calling foul on the Jewish Press for quoting from her blog without attribution AND on the Jewish Week for their Blue Fringe art...