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Famous Abba Fans Talk: Conchita Wurst
FAMOUS ABBA FANS TALK: CONCHITAby Stany Van WURSTWymeersch by Stany Van Wymeersch To narrow down Conchita Wurst (a.k.a. Tom voice, and it is such a harmony together. Neuwirth) as the bearded drag queen who What do you consider ABBA’s greatest won the Eurovision Song Contest for Austria merit? exactly forty years after ABBA’s victory with They made easy listening pop songs which Waterloo would be quite unfair. Indeed, since never became old-fashioned. They are totally winning the ESC, Conchita has established timeless. herself on the international scene as a singer Have you got a favourite ABBA song, one INTERVIEW with an impressive vocal range, as well as a that you would like to interpret one day? gay and cultural icon. Both the private person, I love Mamma Mia! This is my number one Tom, and the adopted personality, Conchita, choice at the karaoke bar (laughs). take a strong stance in favour of tolerance and Have you ever met one of the ABBA against discrimination. Appearances, gender members? and ethnicity should not matter when it comes Unfortunately, no. But if they read these lines, to the dignity and freedom of individuals, she they probably would like to write a song for me. pointed out. They are ‘Wurst’ [meaningless], as In your opinion, why are ABBA so popular the Austrians would say. within the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender) community? In your opinion, how important was ABBA’s Easy pop which works and fabulous and 1974 victory in the Eurovision Song Contest? glamorous dresses. Voilà! And who could resist I think it was an extremely important moment a song called Dancing Queen? for Eurovision. -
THE AUTOMATION ADVANTAGE How Australia Can Seize a $2 Trillion Opportunity from Automation and Create Millions of Safer, More Meaningful and More Valuable Jobs
THE AUTOMATION ADVANTAGE How Australia can seize a $2 trillion opportunity from automation and create millions of safer, more meaningful and more valuable jobs. This report was commissioned by Google and prepared by AlphaBeta. The information contained in the report has been obtained from third-party sources and proprietary research. All monetary figures reported are in 2015 real Australian dollar terms, unless otherwise indicated. AlphaBeta is a strategy and economic advisory business serving clients across Australia and Asia from offices in Singapore and Sydney. Sydney Singapore Level 7, 4 Martin Place Level 4, 1 Upper Circular Road Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia Singapore, 058400 Tel: +61 2 9221 5612 Tel: +65 6443 6480 [email protected] [email protected] 2 Automation is changing the way we work Machines will of the most tedious unburden the and manual work a week average Australian of 2 HOURS over the next 15 years Automation could deliver a boost to Australia’s national income between 2015 and $2.2 2030 from productivity gains TRILLION $1 $1.2 TRILLION TRILLION from accelerating the from transitioning the rate of automation workforce As automation reduces routine and manual work, our jobs will become... SAFER MORE MORE SATISFYING VALUABLE Workplace injuries 62% of low-skilled Wages for non- will fall by 11% as workers will automatable work are dangerous manual experience improved 20% higher than for tasks are automated satisfaction automatable work Australia currently lags global leaders in Automation 50% fewer Australian firms -
Israel Resource Cards (Digital Use)
WESTERN WALL ַה ּכֹו ֶתל ַה ַּמ ַעָר ִבי The Western Wall, known as the Kotel, is revered as the holiest site for the Jewish people. A part of the outer retaining wall of the Second Temple that was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, it is the place closest to the ancient Holy of Holies, where only the Kohanim— —Jewish priests were allowed access. When Israel gained independence in 1948, Jordan controlled the Western Wall and all of the Old City of Jerusalem; the city was reunified in the 1967 Six-Day War. The Western Wall is considered an Orthodox synagogue by Israeli authorities, with separate prayer spaces for men and women. A mixed egalitarian prayer area operates along a nearby section of the Temple’s retaining wall, raising to the forefront contemporary ideas of religious expression—a prime example of how Israel navigates between past and present. SITES AND INSIGHTS theicenter.org SHUK ׁשוּק Every Israeli city has an open-air market, or shuk, where vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to clothing, appliances, and souvenirs. There’s no other place that feels more authentically Israeli than a shuk on Friday afternoon, as seemingly everyone shops for Shabbat. Drawn by the freshness and variety of produce, Israelis and tourists alike flock to the shuk, turning it into a microcosm of the country. Shuks in smaller cities and towns operate just one day per week, while larger markets often play a key role in the city’s cultural life. At night, after the vendors go home, Machaneh Yehuda— —Jerusalem’s shuk, turns into the city’s nightlife hub. -
Quick Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
The 100% Unofficial Quick Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 O Guia Rápido 100% Não-Oficial do Eurovision Song Contest 2018 for Commentators Broadcasters Media & Fans Compiled by Lisa-Jayne Lewis & Samantha Ross Compilado por Lisa-Jayne Lewis e Samantha Ross with Eleanor Chalkley & Rachel Humphrey 2018 Host City: Lisbon Since the Neolithic period, people have been making their homes where the Tagus meets the Atlantic. The sheltered harbour conditions have made Lisbon a major port for two millennia, and as a result of the maritime exploits of the Age of Discoveries Lisbon became the centre of an imperial Portugal. Modern Lisbon is a diverse, exciting, creative city where the ancient and modern mix, and adventure hides around every corner. 2018 Venue: The Altice Arena Sitting like a beautiful UFO on the banks of the River Tagus, the Altice Arena has hosted events as diverse as technology forum Web Summit, the 2002 World Fencing Championships and Kylie Minogue’s Portuguese debut concert. With a maximum capacity of 20000 people and an innovative wooden internal structure intended to invoke the form of Portuguese carrack, the arena was constructed specially for Expo ‘98 and very well served by the Lisbon public transport system. 2018 Hosts: Sílvia Alberto, Filomena Cautela, Catarina Furtado, Daniela Ruah Sílvia Alberto is a graduate of both Lisbon Film and Theatre School and RTP’s Clube Disney. She has hosted Portugal’s edition of Dancing With The Stars and since 2008 has been the face of Festival da Cançao. Filomena Cautela is the funniest person on Portuguese TV. -
Chag Shavuot Sameach!
The Jewish National Edition Post &Opinion Presenting a broad spectrum of Jewish News and Opinions since 1935. Volume 78, Number 8 • May 23, 2012 • 2 Sivan 5772 www.jewishpostopinion.com ChagChag ShavuotShavuot Sameach!Sameach! Cover Art by Eric Jabloner See About the Cover, p.3. 2 The Jewish Post & Opinion May 23, 2012 Letter to the Editor of this Editorial the Indianapolis Star Inside Issue April 24, 2012 Editorial.....................................................2 In our last issue, I wrote about an article Letter to Star Editor ................................2 that appeared in the Indianapolis Star on the As a son of Holocaust survivors who Rabbi Benzion Cohen topic of a local Holocaust commemoration. has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to (Chassidic Rabbi).....................................3 Included with that article were three photos, the horrible events of the 1930’s and About the Cover ......................................3 one depicting a candlelighting.The caption 1940’s that annihilated two thirds of all Amy Hirshberg Lederman read: “Alex Star lights a candle to remember living Jews in Europe, it was startling to (Jewish Educator) ....................................4 family members who died. The six candles read the article that appeared to the left 18 Reasons to be Jewish.........................4 represent the 6 million Jews who perished.” of two photos published in your April 19, Seth Ben-Mordecai However, in the article to the left of that 2012 edition. You referred to the six (The Roads from Babel) ...........................5 -
SEE the Berkshire Jewish Voice
Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Pittsfield, MA Berkshire Permit No. 19 JEWISHA publication of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, serving V the Berkshires and surrounding ICE NY, CT and VT Vol. 26, No. 5 Sivan/Tammuz 5778 May 29 to July 1, 2018 jewishberkshires.org A Strong Federation is Key to a Dive Into Summer Strong Jewish Community A particularly rich season of Jewish-themed arts The Berkshires is Home and cultural programming ahead Berkshire snowbirds are notorious culture vultures, and as summer and summer people return, so does the complete array of world class arts programming that is this region’s hallmark. Dive into this issue of the BJV, in which we preview upcoming Jewish-themed arts and educational events – books, films, scholars, theater, music, and dance. Above, dancers with Israel’s Batsheva – The Young Ensemble, which will perform “Naharin’s Virus” from July 4 through July 8 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Bernie and Elaine Roberts, our Major Donors Celebration co-chairs Festival in Becket. For more on what to expect from Batsheva, please see page 28. PITTSFIELD – The Jewish Federation Inside of the Berkshires will host its annual Extend a Hand of Companionship ...........2 Major Donors Celebration on Sunday, July 15 at 9:30 a.m. at the Country Martin Bookspan on his pal, Rabbi Josh – A Farewell Blessing ...........3 Club of Pittsfield, an event that year Your Federation Presents .....................4-11 after year has demonstrated the tre- “Lenny” mendous impact major donors have on Local News .....................................12-14, 18 building and sustaining Jewish life in A “Behind the Scenes” reminiscence of a Annual Campaign in Full Swing .............15 the region. -
Jewish Liturgical Music for Treble Choirs Prepared by Miriam Altman, July, 2014
Jewish Liturgical Music for Treble Choirs Prepared by Miriam Altman, July, 2014 A couple notes on current Jewish liturgical music • Like the Christian liturgy, Jewish liturgical music often contains many, many settings of identical texts, varying in style over the years. Just like one can hear dozens of settings of “Gloria,” or “Kyrie eleison,” you will find a comparable amount of “Ose Shalom”s and “Mi Chamochah”s. In the past couple decades, the school music publishers have become aware of this and will sometimes have a prolific composer (e.g. John Leavitt) write a song using Jewish liturgical texts. These pieces are not performed in synagogues, nor would most Jews be familiar with them. (The same goes for almost anything published for Chanukah.) Songs in the list below are ones that would be recognizable to most American Jews, particularly in Reform and, to a lesser extent, Conservative congregations. Orthodox Jews probably would not be, keeping to much older or internally-known melodies. • Cantors and song leaders will improvise and arrange harmonies from melodic lead sheets, both for themselves (during congregational singing) and for small group or choral performances. You should feel absolutely welcome to do the same. “Traditional” arrangements, published in octavo form, are sometimes available, but they are utilized far less commonly than the practice of learning harmonies/arrangements by ear. This is not unlike the Black gospel choral tradition (and other folk traditions, of course). Use YouTube, iTunes, or connect with a cantor at a local synagogue for ideas. Professional Jewish cantors, by the way, are ordained clergy and complete years of schooling to receive their certification. -
Jewish Federation Women's Philanthropy
Jewish Community News www.jfedps.org The Publication of the Jewish Federation of the Desert Iyar/Sivan 5780 - May 2020 The Challenges of Our New Reality By Bruce Landgarten, Jewish Federation Chief Executive Officer There are new questions and new or when summer activities open. So participating together. and timeless. Yes, we need to make realities we find ourselves grappling many unknowns. So much unfamiliar The North American Jewish hard choices now about how to with today. During these difficult times ground. So much to think about. community has evolved an endure the current challenges. And we are questioning what happens to Our responsibilities, however, extraordinary philanthropic we’ll need to adjust our operations perspective when we’re living through oblige us to do more. To broaden tradition, having created perhaps once we re-open in deference to the what feels like an endless alternative our frame of reference. To focus the most expansive Jewish communal economic realities we will confront. reality? After so many weeks of on the inevitable post-crisis period infrastructure in the history of the But our mission isn’t defined in weeks, shutdown, it becomes more and to come. As a Federation we have Diaspora. Much of this organizational months, or even years. Our mission is more difficult to get our arms around played a critical part in building and infrastructure is dependent, on an to strengthen Jewish community and how things will work, how they’ll look strengthening Jewish life. For decades ongoing basis, on continued fund- enrich Jewish life. It’s a mission we and feel when this crisis is over. -
Eurovisión Y Geopolítica
EUROVISIÓN Y GEOPOLÍTICA Samuel Antón Chivo 1.- La sombra de la guerra El verano de 1945 llegaba a su fin y con él la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Europa se había quedado en nada y, en solo treinta años, habían tropezado dos veces con la misma piedra. Las consecuencias del conflicto fueron numerosas. Las ciudades quedaron inhabilitadas y los pueblos destruidos. Los daños humanos fueron superiores a los daños materiales. Cerca de treinta y siete millones de europeos sufrieron en su propia carne la explotación y la esclavitud que sus antepasados habían proporcionado a las poblaciones indígenas siglos atrás. Además, el cincuenta y dos por ciento de esos treinta y siete millones eran civiles no combatientes. El primer paso hacia la paz fue la Carta del Atlántico de 1941, seguida de la Conferencia de San Francisco por la cual surgía Naciones Unidas, que pretendía alcanzar la paz mundial. Además, Samuel Antón gracias a la Conferencia de Breton Woods se crearon organismos para regular la economía financiera como, por ejemplo, el Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento, el Banco Mundial o el Fondo Monetario Internacional. Entre el 4 y el 11 de febrero de 1945, se reunieron Stalin, Churchill y Roosevelt en el Palacio de Livadia, cerca de Yalta, en la península de Crimea, para negociar las zonas de ocupación en la Alemania Occidental. No se olvidaron de Francia, que recibió su parte correspondiente. Este asunto terminó de concretarse en la Conferencia de Postdam entre el diecisiete de julio y el dos de agosto de ese mismo año. Se decidió dividir Berlín en dos1. -
L'italia E L'eurovision Song Contest Un Rinnovato
La musica unisce l'Europa… e non solo C'è chi la definisce "La Champions League" della musica e in fondo non sbaglia. L'Eurovision è una grande festa, ma soprattutto è un concorso in cui i Paesi d'Europa si sfidano a colpi di note. Tecnicamente, è un concorso fra televisioni, visto che ad organizzarlo è l'EBU (European Broadcasting Union), l'ente che riunisce le tv pubbliche d'Europa e del bacino del Mediterraneo. Noi italiani l'abbiamo a lungo chiamato Eurofestival, i francesi sciovinisti lo chiamano Concours Eurovision de la Chanson, l'abbreviazione per tutti è Eurovision. Oggi più che mai una rassegna globale, che vede protagonisti nel 2016 43 paesi: 42 aderenti all'ente organizzatore più l'Australia, che dell'EBU è solo membro associato, essendo fuori dall'area (l’anno scorso fu invitata dall’EBU per festeggiare i 60 anni del concorso per via dei grandi ascolti che la rassegna fa in quel paese e che quest’anno è stata nuovamente invitata dall’organizzazione). L'ideatore della rassegna fu un italiano: Sergio Pugliese, nel 1956 direttore della RAI, che ispirandosi a Sanremo volle creare una rassegna musicale europea. La propose a Marcel Bezençon, il franco-svizzero allora direttore generale del neonato consorzio eurovisione, che mise il sigillo sull'idea: ecco così nascere un concorso di musica con lo scopo nobile di promuovere la collaborazione e l'amicizia tra i popoli europei, la ricostituzione di un continente dilaniato dalla guerra attraverso lo spettacolo e la tv. E oltre a questo, molto più prosaicamente, anche sperimentare una diretta in simultanea in più Paesi e promuovere il mezzo televisivo nel vecchio continente. -
1 Lahiton [email protected]
Lahiton [email protected] 1 Lahiton magazine was founded in 1969 by two partners, Uri Aloni and David Paz, and was funded by an investment from Avraham Alon, a Ramlah nightclub owner and promoter. Uri Aloni was a pop culture writer and rabid music fan while David Paz, another popular music enthusiast, was an editor who knew his way around the technical side of print production. The name “Lahiton,” reportedly invented by entertainers Rivka Michaeli and Ehud Manor, combines the Hebrew words for hit, “lahit” and newspaper, “iton.” Lahiton [email protected] 2 Uri Aloni cites the British fan magazines Melody Maker and New Music Express as influences; (Eshed 2008) while living in London and writing for the pop music columns of Yediot Ahronot and La-Isha, he would lift editorial content and photos from the latest British pop magazines, write articles, then find an Israel-bound traveler at the London airport to transport the articles into the hands of his editors. In Lahiton’s early days, Aloni and Paz continued this practice (Edut 2014). Eventually, however Lahiton’s flavor became uniquely secular Israeli. Although in 1965 the Beatles were famously denied permission to perform in Israel (Singer 2015), by the time Lahiton got started in 1969 there was no stemming the tide; the international pop music scene had permeated Israel’s insular and conservative culture. At the time there were no other Hebrew publications that covered what was going on both at home and in America and Europe. Lahiton began as a bimonthly publication, but within the first year, when press runs of 5000 copies sold out on a regular basis, Paz and Aloni turned it into a weekly. -
Alletiders Melodi Grand Prix
Spillesteder Bredsten Håndværkerhus 1.november 2019 kl. 18:30 Mad og teater 160 kr. billetter Kurt 2891 9046 Givskud Forsamlingshus 2.november 2019 kl. 18:30 Mad og teater 175 kr. billetter Irene 2360 6208 Egtved Idræts og Multicenter 8.november 2019 kl. 18:30 Mad og teater 175 kr. billetter Egtved Lyd&Billede 7555 3565 Nørup Sognegård 9.november 2019 kl.18:30 Mad og teater 175 kr. billetter Dagli´Brugsen Ny Nørup 7588 3038 Tak for støtte til forestillingen Egtved Lyd&Billede Dagli’Brugsen Ny Nørup Dagli’Brugsen Bredsten Givskud Forsamlingshus Nørup og Omegns Kulturforening Musicalakademiet Fredericia Kolding Profiltøj Kirkens Korshær Bredsten Pure-Hair.dk - certificeret Grøn Salon ALLETIDERS MELODI GRAND PRIX Tekst og idé Kevin H. Larsen. Velkommen til et brag af en Melodi Grand Prix kavalkade. Her kommer alle de kendte evergreens, og et par stykker mere, kædet lystigt sammen af vores uforlignelige værter. Vi håber, I vil nyde at være i selskab med os et par timer og syng endelig med. Instruktør: Bobby Munk Vestergaard Larsen Suffli: Hanne Younes, Bettina Alrø Sminke: Sanne Væver, Tobias Væver, Emmelie Væver, Alberte Væver Kostumer: Janne Mejborn Nielsen, Kirsten Jensen Scene: Bobby Munk Vestergaard, Bent Iversen Lyd og lys: Maibritt Vestergaard Iversen, Bent Iversen, Youssef Agerbo Halabi, Kevin H. Larsen Plakat og program: Kirsten Jensen Video: Youssef Agerbo Halabi Sangere Dorthe Salomon Hvid Jette Salomon Jan Christoffersen Anne-Meta Brunsborg Jimmi Jacobsen Værter Anne Kirstine Vestergaard Iversen Søren Kristensen Margrethe Kristensen Jørgen Overgaard Kor og dansepiger Anne-Sofie Laursen Karoline Pearson Fink Stine Aaby Larsen Orkester Klaver: Morten Sandfeld Elwarth Guitar: Ole Schmidt Bas m.m.: Thomas Bové Bølkov Trommer: Kasper Tinggaard Sangene i den rækkefølge de bliver opført i vores udgave af et Melodi Grand Prix • 1957 Skibet skal sejle i nat.