Violins of Hope: Reclaiming a Lost Heritage
Virtuoso violinist Niv Ashkenazi is coming to Ottawa, bringing with him a prized instrument. But this is no ordinary violin. Rather, it is one of the scores of violins played during the Holocaust by “Jews in ghettoes, forest hideouts and concentration camp orchestras”...
On Fasting
Why do we fast? Why do I fast? I have been fasting on Yom Kippur for seventy years. I fasted even when I rebelled against my Jewish heritage and refused to follow any, not just some, of the halachic practices I had been taught. I fasted even when I worked on Yom...Cantor Max Presents: Songs & Stories of My People – “From Shtetl to State”
Part One – From Shtetl to State Tells the story of East European Jewry, from its peak to its near destruction, and its miraculous rebirth in Israel. Songs and stories about pre and post Holocaust life, combine in a program of hope, faith, and Jewish renewal....