![]() ![]() "As a singer Leny was an exceptional musician," says the revered Brazilian pianist, arranger and composer César Camargo Mariano, with whom Andrade collaborated on two albums. The news was shared with NPR by Eliana Peranzzetta, who, with her husband, the arranger and pianist Gilson Peranzzetta, had cared for Andrade for several years. Her career spanned 65 years, during which she made fans of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie and many more illustrious contemporaries.Īndrade died of Lewy body dementia on July 24. With a thick, husky voice seasoned by cigarette smoke and late hours, Andrade sang torridly of love she could also swing as hard as any American jazz singer. Andrade was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Édith Piaf and a consummate nightclub artist. Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, has died in Rio de Janeiro. Andrade died on Jin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I stand here as an Israeli citizen,” he said Tuesday, “but more importantly as a father who can say with absolute certainty that there was a high chance that some of my three children and the children of people living would not be alive today if it weren’t for the right of the court to revoke government decisions on the basis of lack of reasonability.” Ewa Gavrielov demonstrates in a Hebrew T-shirt that reads “Savtot lema’an hademokratiyah” - “Grandmothers for democracy.Leny Andrade performs at Birdland in New York in 2008. One protester’s sign reads “If it looks like a ducktator, quacks like a ducktator, then it just may Be Be a ducktator.” (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) ![]() In 2007, Wasser was the lead attorney on a case in which three Israeli regional councils sued the government, alleging that the protection from rocket attacks for Israeli schoolchildren near the Gaza Strip was insufficient - “unreasonably” so. “If the legal situation in Israel continues and Netanyahu’s judicial coup continues, as suggested by the passage of the reasonableness bill yesterday, the democracy of the State of Israel is heading swiftly downhill,” Wasser told the crowd. The Jewish News of Northern California July 26, 2023 “The democracy of the state of Israel is heading swiftly downhill,” Israeli lawyer Eduardo Wasser told a crowd of protesters in front of the today. “I stand before you today representing the majority of lawyers who oppose the catastrophic legal revolution being pushed by the extreme-led Israeli government in the Knesset recently,” he said before chants of “Busha! Busha! Busha!” (“Shame! Shame! Shame!”) interrupted him. One of the speakers was Eduardo Wasser, an Israeli constitutional lawyer who once successfully persuaded his country’s Supreme Court to overturn a government decision on the basis of “reasonableness.” The legislation that the Knesset passed on Monday removed the Supreme Court’s ability to use the “reasonableness” justification to overturn government actions. The protest, organized by the Israeli expat pro-democracy group UnXeptable, drew as many as 200 people who chanted “ De-mo-kra-tiya !” (“democracy” in Hebrew), listened to speakers and held signs with slogans including “Save Israel from Netanyahu,” “Israel democracy kidnapped by extremists” and “Reform Judaism, not the judiciary.” Protestors, dressed like women in the patriarchal dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” TV series, participated in the July 25 protest, following the lead of the Israeli feminist group Bonot Alternativa, members of which are known for dressing in “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes at protests. Tuesday morning’s protest was the second such demonstration in three days in the Bay Area. ![]() Protesters against the #Israeli judicial law in #sanfrancisco in front of the Israeli Consulate /lqxNlCzTCz The day after Israel’s Knesset passed the first of several bills to implement a highly controversial restructuring of the judicial system, Israeli expats and their American allies protested the changes in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. ![]()
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