{"id":243257,"date":"2026-04-10T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243257\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:21:07","slug":"heroes-independence-concert-features-israeli-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243257\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Independence Concert\u2019 features Israeli artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pagephoto layout_pagephoto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/07-04-2026-12-55-46-pm-8539925.jpg\" \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Free event at Beth Yeshurun April 23<\/p>\n<p>Congregation Beth Yeshurun invites the community to \u201cRise Up: Heroes Independence Concert,\u201d a powerful evening of live music and storytelling honoring extraordinary Jewish heroism in the wake of Oct. 7, 2023. The concert will be held Thursday, April 23, at 7 p.m., at the synagogue. <\/p>\n<p>The program features internationally acclaimed Israeli musician Gilad Segev, who returned home after Oct. 7 to launch the Heroes Project, an initiative honoring everyday Israelis who displayed remarkable bravery, rooted in his own family history of sacrifice and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The project has since brought these stories to stages across North America and Israel, developed educational partnerships with StandWithUs and Taglit-Birthright Israel and earned the endorsement of Israeli President Itzhak Herzog.<\/p>\n<p>Through live performance and moving narrative, the concert takes audiences on a journey of remembrance, resilience and unity \u2013 a fitting tribute as the Jewish community marks Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha\u2019atzmaut.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the generosity of Leslie and Russ Robinson and Cindy and Barry Weinstein, this program is free and open to the community. Registration is required forsecurity purposes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethyeshurun.org\/event\/Rise-Up-Heroes-Concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bethyeshurun.org\/event\/Rise-Up-Heroes-Concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Free event at Beth Yeshurun April 23 Congregation Beth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[93002,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-243257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-rise-up-heroes-independence-concert-features-israeli-artist","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}