Klezmer, Yiddish, and How I Became a Cultural Ambassador for the Jews
Growing up, my newfound love of Yiddish music became my cultural ambassador moment, my way of sharing a Jewish cultural aspect with my broader community.
Growing up, my newfound love of Yiddish music became my cultural ambassador moment, my way of sharing a Jewish cultural aspect with my broader community.
I first found my voice at a dying woman’s bedside during a unit of clinical pastoral education. I had been paged to the neurology ICU for a family struggling to say goodbye to their mother, who was in the final stages of brain cancer. When I asked her daughter
Read about the early life of a young immigrant to the United States before he went on to compose songs that shaped the American music scene for decades.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, hundreds of viewers tuned in to Facebook to watch “Songs for All of Us: A Gathering of Hope and Purpose,” an inspired and powerful hour of song, spoken word, and prayer streamed live.