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POP/CABARET ``Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.'' Michael Feinstein. (Concord): Security concerns prompted cancellation of a North American tour by the cabaret singer and Israel's most esteemed orchestra, but this album proves this is one of those rare singer-orchestra collaborations that is worth the trouble. The classical musicians would appear to have the same loving respect for these songs as popular-songs historian Feinstein does, and Feinstein's program of songs written only by Jewish composers (fairly easy to compile, considering that 90 percent of the great Tin Pan Alley composers were Jews) has been assembled to make the most of the dramatic sweep an orchestra supplies. As would be expected, the set list is heavy on ballads, all graced by …