Jewish music star Yaakov Shwekey launched his latest project with a private concert at the Bell Works Theater in New Jersey, ...

This program appears in the WMNF Archive for one week following its broadcast. Happy New Year, wonderful Sunday Simcha listeners. This week’s program at 2 PM ET on Sunday, December 28th features an ...

Here we are in the midst of Hanukkah (began on December 6th this year), the Jewish "Festival of Lights" celebrating the successful rededication of their Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean ...

As she gets ready to leave a festival that has been at the forefront of Jewish music for 30 years, Eleanor Shapiro has no regrets. Why would she? Under Shapiro’s guidance, Berkeley’s Jewish Music ...

Recently, before a packed audience in New York, a musician named Yaniv Tsaidi readjusted the clip holding down his yarmulke, stepped toward his microphone and began to scream. But the 29-year-old ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...

Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania-based repository for the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive, calls it “among the most important resources in the world for the study of ...

(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

Cologne's inaugural Shalom Music festival unites classical, jazz, club, folk and even medieval music under the banner of Jewish music. But does anything actually unite this radically diverse program?

Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp. Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ...

J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish category ...