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Ne’ilah
… Nei’la is the fifth and last service of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). In contrast to … said by the cantor and repeated by the congregation: 'Shma yisrael' (said once), 'Baruch shem malchuto le'olam …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Debbie Friedman, the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, …
Yaakov Huri
… Yaakov Huri: An Iraqi Cantor in the Edith Gerson Kiwi Archive … Huri volunteered at a hospital. With the establishment of the State of Israel he felt that he could no … preserved. He also read the Torah swiftly, without embellishments, as was customary in Baghdad. He studied the parshah …

Israeli folk music: songs of the early pioneers
… Songs for voice and piano, arr. by various composers from Israeli folk songs. With a foreword …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… 722 … Although the song Hatikvah became the emblematic lyrical signifier of Zionism, … from the beginning of the Zionist movement up to establishment of the state of Israel. שָׁם בִּמְקוֹם אֲרָזִים שָׁם …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan … hegemony of a state-sponsored Sephardic rabbinical establishment overwhelmingly dominated by rabbis of Iraqi and …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… 57 … 718 … Israel … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or … At the bride's house, after the evening feast or light refreshments, the women and the share'a sing and dance while they …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… This melody was sung on the first two days of Pessa h for Birkat Kohanim, and for other parts of … the lulav during Hallel- Sha h arit for Sukkoth Examples A Shmini Atzeret [ same melody as Pessach] Tefilat tal ( also …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… [1] The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most impressive text within the Synagogue … While reading each of these seven words: Yevarekhekha, VeYishmarekha, Eleikha, VeYekhunakha , Eleikha , Lekha , and … a'leinu ve'al 'amkha beit Yisrael h aim ubrakha lemishmeret shalom' (Mighty [God] on High, who dwells by power. …

Anim Zemirot
… The Piyyut 'Anim Zemirot,' also known as 'Shir HaKavod' (Song of Glory), appears in the … 'al korbonekha,' is interpreted as an allusion to Rabbi Shmuel He H asid, Yehuda He H asid's father. The Piyyut is …