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I agonized over this. We’re now in the nine-day mourning period approaching Tisha B’Av. Music is not appropriate. Can we observe by listening to music of the season? Well, I decided to go with it.

No matter how many dreary events it’s played at, “Jerusalem” — a hymn with lyrics from a poem by William Blake set to music by Sir Hubert Parry — never loses the power to move and astonish, unlike so ...

The song "Jerusalem of Gold", one of contemporary Israel's inalienable culture's assets, represents a unique cultural phenomenon: Four decades have passed since it was written by Naomi Shemer-a ...