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Ghetto Shul at the Jazz Fest

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Mike Cohen

In the midst of the Montreal International Jazz Festival?s 30th season, the Ghetto Shul got into the act on Wednesday with the first of four programs. And the shul?s spiritual leader, Rabbi Leibish Hundert, told me he hopes it is the start of something big. The Ghetto Shul is a grass-roots student-run synagogue located in the area affectionately known as the student ghetto, east of the McGill University campus. Six of the eight bands that will perform during the Nights at Ghetto Shul series are local: Shtreiml is Montreal?s best known klezmer band while Nuju is a klezmer band comprised of students from McGill?s Shulich School of Music. Then there is Dank Skullkap, from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has a McGill student on board and Jesse Rubin, who is an up-and-coming songwriter that signed with Sony Records. Nozen is led by local Jewish sax musician Damien Niszen. The last night will feature Isaac Miracles, a new hip-hop R&B artist whose band includes Montreal?s only

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