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The Most Jewish Goyish Choir Leader in Europe

Dr. Tomáš Novotný isn’t Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at his CV. Novotný, a professor of comparative religion, Judaism, and Hebrew at Ostrava University in the Czech Republic, leads as culturally Jewish of a life as you can get. After studying Torah in Prague, he eventually fell in love with modern Hebrew […]

Meet the Bal Ej, Ethiopia’s Other Jews

Americans tend to think of Blacks and Jews as distinct groups: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching alongside Martin Luther King, Jr.; Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner going down South for Freedom Summer. Some evoke the Beta Israel community of Ethiopia, and a minority recall the Igbo Jews of Nigeria, or the Abayudaya of Uganda. But […]

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The Most Jewish Goyish Choir Leader in Europe

A crowdfunding campaign to take Jewish music from the analog past to the digital future

Meet the Bal Ej, Ethiopia’s Other Jews

The Russian Jewish Ethnographer Behind This Trove of Stunning Historic Photographs

The Orthodox punk rock-loving guitarist behind the sounds of ‘Jewish Afrobeat’

Let This Music Video Inspire Your Repentance

The Jewish Reggae King from Washington, D.C.

Seinfeld’s Back With Another Rap Album About Nothing

Where Star Trek and the Great American Songbook Meet the Jews

NPR’s ‘From the Top’ airs from the bimah

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