U2 dedicates performance of ‘One’ to Shimon Peres

July 18, 2015

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres may be a big U2 fan, but it seems like Bono is an even bigger Shimon Peres fan.

Peres was in Toronto for an economic conference and attended U2’s performance...

Amy Winehouse, through the lens (and the bottom of a bottle)

July 03, 2015

By CURT SCHLEIER

(JTA) — To anyone who has read a rock-and-roll biography or caught an episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music,” it is a sadly familiar tale: An artist achieves great success only to self...

Jerusalem’s Hazelnuts appear here

October 08, 2014

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

The close jazz harmonies of New Orleans’ own Boswell Sisters have made an indelible impression on a succession of well-known performers – from the Andrews Sisters to Ella Fitzgerald. And now the herald...