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Grapevine: The show must go on

In the immediate aftermath of the cease-fire, organizers of the fourth annual Emunah Concert were not sure if it would take place.

The Jerusalem Festival Orchestra.
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■ UNTIL FRIDAY of last week, in the immediate aftermath of the cease-fire, organizers of the fourth annual Emunah Concert were not sure if it would take place, Racheli Brooks, the executive director of Emunah, told the audience in the packed Henry Crown Auditorium of the Jerusalem Theater on Monday. Even then, said Renee Becker, one of the three co-chairs of Emunah Jerusalem, it wasn’t certain that cantor Simon Cohen – who produced the show, was its emcee and sang solo and in a trio together with cantor Shai Abramson, Ohed Moskovitz and the Ramatayim and Yuval choirs – would be able to attend because he had been unwell for most of the previous week.

But all’s well that ends well, and the concert of cantorial and classical music, under the baton of Mordechai Sobol, who conducted the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, received an enthusiastic response from the audience.

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