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    Watch The Sway Machinery’s Ghostly New Video

    Jewish band’s new album evokes the haunting of the past

    byGabriela Geselowitz
  • Elisha Mlotek, Shlomo Gaisin, & Zachariah Goldschmiedt of Zusha. (Noam Chojnowski)
    Elisha Mlotek, Shlomo Gaisin, & Zachariah Goldschmiedt of Zusha. (Noam Chojnowski)
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    The Folk Band Named After a Hasidic Rabbi

    Zusha’s wordless melodies captivate fans. Just don’t call them a Jewish act.

    byHillel Broder
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    The Sway Machinery Has a New Music Video

    The band heads to Mexico City for “My Dead Lover’s Wedding”

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Jeremiah Lockwood outside the studio in Mali where his band, The Sway Machinery, recorded its latest album.(Tatiana McCabe)
    Jeremiah Lockwood outside the studio in Mali where his band, The Sway Machinery, recorded its latest album.(Tatiana McCabe)
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    Pilgrimage

    An engagement at an African music festival took bandleader Jeremiah Lockwood as far from his musical roots as he’d ever ventured—and put him in tune with them anew

    byTablet Magazine
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    Jewish Bowling Haiku? Jewish Bowling Haiku

    Win a pair of tickets to our party

    byMarc Tracy
  • Susan Sher.(Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Conde Nast Publications)
    Susan Sher.(Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Conde Nast Publications)
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    Talking Politics and Bowling Together

    Mark the day on your calendar

    byThe Editors
  • The Sway Machinery.(The Sway Machinery/Heather Conley)
    The Sway Machinery.(The Sway Machinery/Heather Conley)
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    Our Rosh Hashanah Service

    Plus: Should we be sponsoring one?

    byMarc Tracy
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    (.Hessam/secretswede.net)
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    The Sway Machinery Hit the Road

    Catch the klezmer-rock act on the West Coast

    byUnknown Author
  • Mike Cohen with musicans in Putti, Uganda.(Courtesy Mike Cohen)
    Mike Cohen with musicans in Putti, Uganda.(Courtesy Mike Cohen)
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    Sub-Saharan Fusions

    How an American saxophonist came to cut a record with a group of Ugandan Jews

    byAlexander Gelfand
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    Sundown: Elf Defense

    An ironic sculpture, a tired jokester, and a cross-genre cover

    byHadara Graubart
  • Gary Lucas(© Michel Delsol)
    Gary Lucas(© Michel Delsol)
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    Shades of Gray

    Duo opens new chapter in the history of black-Jewish collaboration

    byAlexander Gelfand
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    Swinging in the New Year

    The Sway Machinery party like it’s 5769

    byBuzz Poole
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