Would the Last Jewish Artist Please Shut Out The Lights?
Boston Jewish Music Festival co-founder Joey Baron has a lot to say about the dismal state of funding for Jewish culture on this morning's eJewish Philanthrophy blog. Makes a lot of good points. Time to respond and make sure he is heard:
Would the Last Jewish Artist Please Shut Out The Lights?, by Joey Baron, posted on eJewish Philanthropy blog Sep 12, 2013
If Jewish community institutions continue to offer only second-rate klezmer bands and clichéd cantorial concerts as their cultural attractions, we may as well put a sign on the door saying the culturally Jewish are not welcome here…. [more]