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Celebrated TV producer Elad Kuperman finds a new reality in the Biala court   Photos: Elchanan Kotler For Israeli television viewers, Elad Kuperman is synonymous with some of the most creative programming over the last three decades. As a producer, he’s the behind-the-scenes guy who makes things happen — yet over the last few years, the Great Producer started pulling on his soul strings. And that’s why Elad often finds himself in the inner sanctum of the Biala-Beit Shemesh Rebbe. “Here,” he says, “is where I make my most important life decisions” The last place you’d expect ...

Judith Gerzi’s soul music blends her Sephardic roots with chassidic notes   Early Ache Growing up frum in a very musical family in Edgware, London, before it was the religious hub it is today, I was the quiet one, the one who was too shy to sing loudly. My mother sang opera, my grandfather and brother are chazzanim, but though I loved music, I had no confidence. As a teen, I finally started to come out of my shell, only to realize that there were absolutely no venues for a frum woman to sing. When I married my husband, who plays too many musical instruments to count, I loved that our home ...