Temple Beth El’s fifth annual Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival kicks off Sunday evening and then continues on March 16 and 17. A program called “The Angel’s Wings: Music & Tales for the Soul ...

Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of ...

Every song has a story, and given the prevalence of Jewish musicians, it’s often a Jewish story. True for ” Hatikvah ” and ” By Mir Bistdu Shoen,” but also for “White Christmas”—or even “Ave Maria.” ...

So you’ve decided to explore Jewish music. Great! Now to go find some. Here are my favorite sites to download Jewish songs and buy Jewish CDs. (If you’re the streaming type, there are Jewish Internet ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis H. Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

Counterpoint, Vermont’s professional 12-voice vocal ensemble, under the direction of Nathaniel G. Lew, presents a journey through the varied worlds of Jewish song, “Mir Zaynen Do (We are Here): Jewish ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...

Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest ...

For the past decade, Hebrew classes at the University of Colorado Boulder have hosted a novel event described as a rite of passage: the Schmooze-a-Palooza—part concert, part community building and ...

A Moscow audience of 2, 000 that filled the Chaikovsky Conservatory auditorium there to capacity cheered, wept and called for more encores last night when Jan Peerce, famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, ...

Jacob Michael, noted American Jewish philanthropist, presented his collection of Jewish music — one of the largest in the world — to the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University ...