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For more than a century, a synagogue known as the ‘Carnegie Hall of Brooklyn’ has been home to the US’ greatest cantors

Sacred Spaces

New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy through melody. Now, there is an attempt to revive the practice.

A look at the culture and tradition behind brewing sake in Japan

Japan in Focus

A father-daughter duo brings an ancient art form to Instagram

Arts, Culture & Media

‘A whole bunch of goodness’: Chef Alexander Smalls talks about new cookbook of African home cooking

Food
International Bagpipe Day

Break out the kilts — or don’t — it’s International Bagpipe Day!

Music
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Father Isaac of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA.

Hallelujah, America has its first Trappist beer

Lifestyle & Belief

For centuries Trappist monks have been brewing beer in Belgium. Now for the first time the old world tradition has come to the new world to St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA.

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