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Mining its roots: Fool’s Gold mixes Hebrew with Afro-pop
A musician is dancing near an expansive swimming pool at a Beverly Hills mansion, mugging for the camera while singing in Hebrew, his bass guitar strapped to his back.

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Cutting-edge artiste puts concentration camp recipes to music
In the Thereisenstadt concentration camp just north of Prague, during the Nazi occupation, a group of Jewish female prisoners documented their family recipes for foods such as flaky strudel, linzer torte and Czech cake.

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Yoni Wolf on WHY?'s least hip hop album Eskimo Snow

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Photo exhibit shows breadth of Mexican synagogues

Photographer Moy Volcovich was born in Mexico City in 1963 to an Ashkenazi father from Poland and a Mexican-born Sephardic mother. At the time, this was a highly unusual pairing among Jewish couples in his country, Volcovich says.

And to some extent, he adds, it still is. [...]

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Alicia Jo Rabins sings about the original Girls In Trouble
Passionate sex, familial betrayal, abandoned children. No, it's not another teen-angst driven nighttime soap opera: it's the Torah [...]

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Swing and a prayer: Sherith Israel’s own to help put a jazzy spin on Shabbat
In New York, during the sticky hot summer of 1947, singer and pianist Dorothy Lefkovits first took the stage for the Apollo Theater’s legendary amateur hour. She was 15 years old and so nervous that she tried to hide behind the piano...

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Manchester’s the Whip is not for fans of two guys pushing buttons
Answering the phone in a thick British accent from her older sister’s flat in the small Manchester suburb of Chorltan, Lil Fee (née Fiona Daniel) is in a jovial mood, despite the dreary, grey sky filled with unrelenting English rain just outside her window.

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CJM puts second spin on vintage Jewish records
Can you remember the feeling of purchasing a brand new record? Bringing it home, removing it from its colorful cardboard sleeve, gently moving the turntable arm into the first groove. You’d spend the afternoon lying on your belly studying the album cover art, the lyrics and the black-and-white back photos as you played the record over and over.

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Isn’t it odd how the best designs, the most unique products, are oftentimes the result of collaboration?

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Indie Gift Guide: San Francisco
San Francisco style can be hard to pin down. With distinct neighborhoods in the city proper — the Tenderloin, the Mission, The Haight — and even more unique outlying cities, there are a lot of different types of ladies to please.