According to the dictionary,davka means ‘precisely,’ ‘just.’ But the way it is used in Israel, as seen in a number of solicited e-mails, implies more than
Mountain Jews who have emigrated from Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Chechnya or the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, are adapting their traditions to newfound freedoms of America.
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Beat This: Still Drumming at 75 Last February, The Klezmatics won a Grammy in the world music category. Now klezmer—that newly hip 500-year-old music tradition—is
Recordings Refuge Rock Sublime Singer-actor Mare Winningham has invested her Jewish devotional album with country twang, guitar pickings and a passion for her newfound faith.