(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In the late 1960s, the Bronx was at war. Rival gangs were fighting over territory in neighborhoods that had been devastated by drugs, poverty and the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Benjamin “Yellow Benjy” Melendez was the son of Puerto Rican Jewish immigrants and the leader of a multicultural gang called the Ghetto Brothers that promoted peace. After his...
The Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance (LMI) has moved its final concert for today from Annunciation Church to the Dixon Hall Annex in the Recital Hall room on the Tulane University campus.
The concert, which is this year’s final performance, is slated to begin at 2:30 p.m. Guest performer, percussionist Andrew Szypula, will be on the program featuring contemporary music played by the festival’s new music musicians.
(JTA) — It took 80 Israeli musicians two months to record covers of 50 classic Israeli songs as part of a project to help the Israeli music industry cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The artists, whose styles run the gamut from rock to rap to Mizrahi, were able to put their own spin on these tunes while earning an honorarium of about $1,400. While that may be...
(JTA) — Jewish pop star Pink and her 3-year-old son have recovered from the coronavirus, she announced on Twitter.
She and her son Jameson were sheltering at home in Los Angeles when they began experiencing symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago, she wrote in a series of tweets Saturday. A retest in recent days came back negative, she said.
