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Aug 7, 2023 · “I’ve run into very ropey situations out there.” The music video for “King of the Jews,” which is premiering a day early on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, shows Weiner slowly wrap tefillin...
Instead of Song of Songs, some traditions count the song of Jehoshaphat—sung at a time when enemies had come to fight the king in Jerusalem and the end appeared to be imminent—as number 9.16 After they had fasted and prayed, the king joyfully called out: “Give thanks to the L-rd, for His kindness is eternal.”17 Miraculously, the enemies ...
The Song was accepted into the Jewish canon of scripture in the 2nd century CE, after a period of controversy in the 1st century. This period of controversy was a result of many rabbis seeing this text as merely "secular love poetry, a collection of love songs gathered around a single theme", [ 36 ] and thus not worthy of canonization.
According to a study of American musicians published in 1933, at a time when Jews comprised less than 4 percent of the total United States population, 36 percent of the players in American “amusement orchestras” were Jews. And in the string sections, the numbers were twice as high!
Sep 19, 2023 · With a new song (shira), the redeemed people praised Your Name at the seashore. Together they all gave thanks, proclaimed Your kingship, and declared: “The Lord shall reign forever and ever ...
Mar 31, 2013 · Jewish tradition, and Christianity in its wake, assumed that this preacher-king was Solomon and that he wrote the erotically passionate Songs of Songs when he was young; Proverbs, with its ...
Jul 3, 2023 · From the beginning, “God Bless America” was a Rorschach test of a song. Many know that Woody Guthrie didn’t like it for what he felt was saccharine patriotism, writing “This Land Is Your Land” in protest. Yet the song also received antisemitic hate and was boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan.
