On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...

The Jewish Bluegrass of Nefesh Mountain, Syrian Jewish music from Asher Shasho Levy, a selection of show tunes that reflects the influence Jewish composers continue to have on Broadway, klezmer music, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

There's a growing cadre of musicians who combine Jewish spiritual lyrics with genres like blues, bluegrass, folk and country. NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In ...

Yamim Ba’im at Bethel Woods: The first Jewish music festival The landmark Jewish music fest of the year: Ishay Ribo, Avraham Fried, Zusha & Shmuel live at Bethel Woods, Catskills, on Aug 7—first-ever ...

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UPSTATE, NY - August 7, 2025 - Yamim Baim will make Jewish music history at the legendary Bethel Woods with the first-ever open-air Jewish concert of this magnitude. Throughout this unforgettable ...

Even though it is not yet quite up to full speed, the German government is demonstrably determined to keep its official and financial clout firmly behind the invaluable initiative. You don’t need to ...

Kinky Friedman is easily the most openly Jewish of country stars; he calls his backing band The Texas Jewboys, for one thing. And he has songs like "Ride 'Em, Jewboy" (that's Willie Nelson singing it) ...

In the hit show “The Sopranos,” veteran actor Jerry Adler plays mob-adjacent Jewish businessman Hesh Rabkin, who made a fortune in the music business decades earlier. In a first season episode, Hesh ...