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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, co-chair of J Street’s Rabbinic and Cantorial Cabinet, explains how the Heritage Foundation’s newly-launched “Project Esther,” hijacks the spirit of Purim and is a “deep disservice to its namesake by focusing narrowly on left-wing critics of Israel while ignoring surging right-wing antisemitism”:

Tamar-kali’s eclectic output is the product of wildly varied input — her family’s juke joint in the Sea Islands, blues and jazz, and the Ashkenazi cantorial melodies and classical music she absorbed growing up in New York City.

“He seemed to have an affinity for the right cantorial, modal stuff to do,” Chris said.

“He was a singing violinist, influenced by the cantorial tradition,” Baer said.

“Purgatorio” is based on the Syrian cantorial tradition.