Pinchas zukerman biography of abraham
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In Perpetual Pursuit of a Creative Life
Natalia Zukerman has taken a “long and winding road,” to where she is now, she says on the phone. Primarily known as a piercing singer-songwriter and stalwart touring musician, Zukerman is also an artist and illustrator. This year, when she makes the annual lesbian pilgrimage to Provincetown for Memorial Day weekend festivities, she won’t be playing a formal show — which she’s done many times before, gigging with friends like Zoë Lewis and Melissa Ferrick — but instead will lead a workshop called “Inviting Joy: Rewriting and Rerouting Our Stories” at Womencrafts on Sunday at 9 a.m.
Michelle Axelson, the store’s owner, has been a fan of Zukerman’s music for 20 years, and the two know each other through the “small world of lesbian artists/performers/authors and lesbian bookshop owners,” Axelson wrote to the Independent. “We agreed that the program she fryst vatten interested in having was suited for people who will be up and fresh in the morning!”
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SYMPHONIC MUSIC OF JEWISH EXPERIENCE
This is part two of a multi-part exhibit on the Symphonic Music of Jewish Experience.
Part 1: Concertos| Part 3: Suites |Part 4: Symphonic Songs
For centuries, Jewish life in Europe was primarily lived separately from the majority population. As emancipation and the Haskala (enlightenment) led Jews toward increased participation in general society, the need to demonstrate that Jewish culture was—or could be—on par with European culture became more pronounced.
The turn of the twentieth century, with the Zionist movement in full swing and nationalistic fervor all over Europe, was a particularly influential time for this. Composers, folklorists, and ethnomusicologists were trekking into remote regions to document folk music traditions thought to be on the verge of extinction. And a group of accomplished Jewish musicians at the St. Petersburg Conservatory were encouraged by their teacher, the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to utilze
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By Cantor Don Croll
Parashat Pinchas
This week’s Torah portion is Pinchas. It’s quite an exciting parasha. A lot of important things happen in this story:
Perhaps the most interesting narrative is about the daughters of Zelophehad. After a census is taken and G-d lays down the law of the land’s division, come fem women: the daughters of Zelophehad, a deceased and sonless member of the Manasseh tribe. The sisters demand a landed inheritance alongside the newly-numbered men. They cry, “Let not our father’s name be lost to his clan just because he had no son!” “Give us a holding among our father’s kinsmen!” (Numbers ) This, of course, is outrageous — women asking for land that G-d decreed could go only to Israelite men. The daughters plead with Moses, who presents their request to G-d. Surprisingly, G-d decides in favor of the women and says, “If a man dies without leaving a son, you shall transfer his property to his daughters.” (Numbers )
Also in this portion, Joshua fryst vatten chose