Hi Everybody!! Our special program in commemoration of Tisha B’Av is up on the website. It is a very special program filled with selections that are appropriate to this most somber day on the Jewish Calendar. Selections of introspection and inspiration. Even if you don’t get to hear it by Tisha B’Av itself, it is still very fine listening even after Tisha B’Av is finished.  The selections are culled from our family archive of over 110 years of recordings.  Ben and I appreciate all of the support we get from you, our great listeners!! We remind you to be our ambassadors, to spread the good word about Washington Jewish Radio to everyone you can!! Here is the line-up for this week’s special program:

PROGRAM OF SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2015-TISHA B’AV

There Will Be A Time-Mordechai Ben David-1983

Oz Bahaloch Yirmiyahu-Cantor Moshe Ganchoff-1965

Tisha B’Av-Ray Middleton-1954

Rochel M’Vako Al Bonecho-Cantor Jacob Barkin-1960

V’Yirushalayim Ircho-Misha Raitzin-1980

He’s Just Turned Around-Avromi Flam-1995

A Din Toireh Mit G-tt-Jan Peerce-1961

Machnisei Rachamim-Reb Abish Brodt-1999

Excerpt from “On A Note Of Triumph” written by the legendary Jewish radio writer Norman Corwin (1910-2011) and broadcast on the CBS Radio network the day of the German surrender, May 8th, 1945.

BEN’S SELECTIONS ON THE PROGRAM:

Im Eshkokeich Yerushalayim-Yaakov Shwekey

Yerushalayim-Journeys

Yerushalayim Beit Melech-Or Cohen

Our Father-Yaakov Shwekey

Jerusalem-Matisyahu

Back To Jerusalem-Idan Rachel Project

Well, that’s the line-up for this week and Ben and I hope you find these special selections very meaningful to you. On next week’s program we will have our Shabbos Nachmu weekend program with lots of happy and joyous music. We will also pay tribute to two personalities who passed away recently. First, the internationally famous star of stage, screen, television and recordings, Theodore Bikel and Rabbi Seymour Rockoff, who was fixture of Jewish music in the 1980′s and 1990′s. You will enjoy it very much!! Thanks for listening and have a great week!!