(RNS) — “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric” is the famous quote by Theodor W. Adorno. The question for me today on Yom Hashoah, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust: Is it still ...
Connie Francis, 20th-century star turned TikTok sensation, recorded an album of Jewish songs in 1960
A new generation of music lovers got turned on to mid-century pop star Connie Francis’ oeuvre in recent months when her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” went viral on TikTok. Now, Francis’ death on ...
Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend. Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and ...
Image Source: Wendy Lewis Forget about JDate for an afternoon. On February 12, the Capital Heights Lyric Opera will present a tribute concert to the Jewish love song at the Forest Hills Library.
Growing up in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community meant secular music was off-limits to Ari Rabin. Now, the artist who goes ...
Connie Francis was a longtime Parkland resident whose 1960 filmed-in-Fort-Lauderdale romp “Where the Boys Are” is to Spring Break what “Jaws” is to shark fishing. Francis was among the first people ...
The peak of this year's holiday season is fast approaching. Almost halfway through the countdown to Christmas, a popular Jewish holiday is set to also begin that evening. Hanukkah, which follows the ...
Singer-songwriter Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, also known as Connie Francis, passed away on Wednesday at 87-years-old. The president of Francis's record label, Concetta Records, Ron Roberts, first ...
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