We’re really excited about the new CD, and we think it’s by far our best yet. This one’s a bit of a departure from the formula of our first three. We’ve got some new original material we hope you’re going to love, but this time we also recorded quite a few more cover tunes — some of our favorite songs by other artists that we love to sing on Shabbat gigs — in the form of four epic medleys. Then, we invited some of our jewish music celebrity friends to sing with us. Zmanim features guest appearances on lead vocals from 8th Day, Yitzy Spinner, Aryeh Kunstler, Pey Dalid and Jewish Star junior finalist Shmuly Brafman. And of course, we’re up to our old hijinks again with a new parody, and we had a blast filming the video for it. We’re very excited for that premiere. Zmanim is without a doubt our most ambitious project to date, and we can’t wait for you to hear it!

Professional Jewish a cappella group Six13 are the originators of today’s Jewish a cappella sound. They’ve performed to rave reviews for millions of people — at synagogues, religious schools, major sports events, JCCs, fundraising events, B’nai Mitzvah and private affairs alike. They’ve received numerous awards for their four best-selling CDs. To find out more about how to bring Six13 to your community for an event that’s truly unforgettable, visit us at www.six13.com.

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Six13, widely regarded as the originators of today’s Jewish a cappella style, have recorded four award-winning albums, whose songs have been played all over Jewish radio and been chosen to appear on nine different “best of” compilation albums. The group has over 20,000 CDs in circulation, and are among the top jewish music artists on iTunes. They have received several distinctions and accolades from Jewish organizations like the National Council of Young Israel and Moment Magazine, and awards from musical organizations like the Harmony Sweepstakes and the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America. They have appeared on the Chabad Telethon, and were chosen from hundreds of groups, both Jewish and secular, as finalists in the casting process for NBC’s hit prime-time television series The Sing-Off. The group has also become a viral internet sensation, with over 500,000 views on YouTube.

Six13 tours worldwide to rave reviews and standing ovations. Recent highlights include the Salute to Israel Parade, the North American Jewish Choral Festival, and six appearances at Jewish Heritage Days for major league sports teams, including Shea Stadium, Citi Field and Madison Square Garden in New York, and Dolphin Stadium in Florida. Each year, the group visits dozens of Jewish communities, providing entertainment appropriate for Shabbat or any other day of the week at congregations, religious schools, JCCs, fundraising events, B’nai Mitzvah and private affairs alike.

Visit www.six13.com or call (888) BOOK-613 for more information and to find out how Six13 can make your concert, celebration or event unforgettable.

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Jane Korman filmed three generations of her family, including her father, a holocaust survivor, dancing and singing outside the Nazi death camp….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvo5OHH6o8 (Parts 1 -3)

As many as 1.1 million people were murdered there by the Nazis in World War II. The video also shows the family dancing at a Polish synagogue, the German concentration camp at Dachau, the Czech concentration camp at Theresienstadt and at a Polish memorial to the victims of the Nazi ghetto.

The video ends with Korman’s emotional 89-year-old father Adolk describing his return to Poland with his three grandchildren as “a really historic moment” http://www.news.com.au/national/outrage-over-melbourne-artist-jane-kormans-i-will-survive-dance-at-polish-death-camp/story-e6frfkvr-1225891392172

jewish artist defends YouTube video ‘Dancing Auschwitz’
Jewish Australian artist Jane Korman created video installation of her family dancing in front of Holocaust landmarks to show different point of view.

The clip depicted the Korman family dancing in front of Holocaust land marks in Poland, including infamous entrance sign to Auschwitz death camp reading “Arbeit Macht Frei,” a Polish synagogue, Dachau, Theresienstadt, and a memorial in Lodz.

Her father at one point in the clip even wore a shirt on which the word “Survivor” was written….. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-artist-defends-youtube-video-dancing-auschwitz-1.301096

Storm as Australian artist Jane Korman dances at Nazi death camp – “I wanted to make artwork that creates a fresh interpretation of historical memory,” Ms Korman said. “He [her father] is saying ‘we’re dancing, we should be dancing, we’re celebrating our survival and the generations after me. We are affirming our existence’.”

But the video – which was also displayed in an Australian art gallery – has been met with anger by some Holocaust survivors and has been picked up and exploited by neo-Nazi websites.

“I don’t see how this video is a mark of respect for the millions who didn’t survive, nor for those who did,” Kamil Cwiok, 86, told The Daily Mail. “It seems to trivialise the horrors that were committed there.”

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff said there was a time and place to celebrate survival.

“As human beings, we have a right to celebrate survival, but there is a time and place to do so,” he said.

“There is an infinite number of ways to do that, but we need to consider the sensibilities of those for whom places such as Auschwitz will always hold terrible pain and indelible memories . . Auschwitz is one of the world’s largest cemeteries…” http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/storm-as-australian-artist-jane-korman-dances-at-nazi-death-camp/story-e6freuy9-1225891333081

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t725116/

A YouTube video showing a Holocaust survivor and members of his family dancing to “I Will Survive” at concentration camps and Nazi-related sites in Europe is sparking international outrage….. http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/07/13/14697401.html

The video is available on YouTube, and formed part of a series of three videos and a photographic exhibition shown at Monash University’s Runt Gallery last year titled Dancing Auschwitz….. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/7928701/auschwitz-dance-video-causes-outrage

Work won’t set you free. Perhaps Dancing? http://thejewishstar.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/work-won%E2%80%99t-set-you-free-perhaps%C2%A0dancing/

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The seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, 21st day of Tishrei, is known as Hoshana Rabbah (Aramaic: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּא, “Great Hoshana/Supplication”). This day is marked by a special synagogue service, the Hoshana Rabbah, in which seven circuits are made by the worshippers with their lulav and etrog, while the congregation recites Hoshanot. It is customary for the scrolls of the Torah to be removed from the ark during this procession. In a few communities a shofar is sounded after each circuit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshana_Rabbah

Five willow branches
At the conclusion of a number of Piyyutim (liturgical poems), five willow branches are beaten on the ground or other surface to symbolize the elimination of sin. This is also symbolic as a prayer for rain and success in agriculture. According to the Kabbalah, beating the ground with the five willow branches is done to “Sweeten the Five Severities”. There is no blessing said for this ritual, but the Aramaic expression “chabit, chabit velah barich” is chanted. This happens to be the oldest known Jewish custom (or Minhag) in Orthodox Judaism.

“It was customary to make one procession around the altar on each day of Sukkot, and seven on the seventh day” [Sukkah 4:5]. The priests carried the palm branches or willows in their hands. The entire ceremony is to demonstrate rejoicing and gratitude for a blessed and fruitful year. Moreover, it serves to tear down the iron wall that separates us from our Father in Heaven, as the wall of Jericho was encompassed “and the wall fell down flat” (Joshua 6). Furthermore, the seven circuits correspond to the seven words in the verse Erhatz benikayon kappay, va’asovevah et mizbahakha Hashem – “I wash my hands in purity and circle around Your altar, O Lord” (Psalms 26:6).

Each “hoshana” is done in honor of a patriarch.

Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Moses (the most important Hebrew prophet)
Aaron (Moses’s brother, the first Kohen Gadol, or High Priest)
Joseph (the three Patriarchs and Jacob’s most famous son)
David (the most important king of Israel)

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The first song is Oseh Shalom and the second is Am Israel Chai. Thei are both sung by Sam Glaser who also plays the piano.

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