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Neshama Carlebach Will Sing At The Synagogue That Temporarily Banned Her Father’s Songs

Mon, 2019-06-24 12:14 | Ben Sales

Neshama Carlebach at the Union for Reform Judaism's biennial in San Diego, Dec. 14, 2013. (URJ via JTA)

(JTA) — In January 2018, Central Synagogue in New York City placed a one-year moratorium on using the music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. On Friday, his daughter will perform there.

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Tue, 2019-06-18 11:01 | Julie Levey

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Ryan Braun Breaks Hank Greenberg’s Record For Most Home Runs By A Jewish Player

Mon, 2019-06-17 14:57 | Gabe Friedman

This Week, Sports

Ryan Braun now has 332 career home runs. (Joe Robbins/Getty Images via JTA)

(JTA) — Ryan Braun now holds the record for most home runs by a Jewish baseball player.

The 35-year-old outfielder passed Hank Greenberg on Friday when he hit his 332nd career homer in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

‘I Like To Clash Different Worlds’

Mon, 2019-06-17 12:56 | Sandee Brawarsky

This Week, Theater & Dance

The way you wear your hat: Lea Kalisch in “In Love with a Dream.” Photos by George Xenos

Swiss-born actor Lea Kalisch is 25, exuberant, confident, athletic, with high energy and a sense that everything is possible. She loves New York, loves being around Jews. All sorts of Jews. And she loves to dance salsa. While she lives in English these days, she speaks French and German fluently, and also knows Yiddish, Spanish, Italian and some Hebrew.

It’s Ashkenazi Vs. Sephardi Jews In This Take On ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Mon, 2019-06-17 12:35 | Josefin Dolsten

This Week

David Serero plays Romeo and Ashley Brooke Miller plays Juliet in a Jewish adaptation of the classic tragedy. (Josefin Dolsten via JTA)

NEW YORK (JTA) — A new production of “Romeo and Juliet” puts a Jewish spin on the classic Shakespearean love story.

Produced by Paris-born opera singer David Serero, the musical is set in Jerusalem and imagines an Ashkenazi Juliet falling in love with a Sephardi Romeo, to the dismay of their families.

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