According to Rabbi Zach Shapiro, Spiritual Leader of Temple Akiba in Culver City and a lifelong musician, the way Reform and Conservative congregations pray underwent a seismic change in the 1970s.

In “Guarded: Women, Water, and Saving Lives,” Debbie Friedman tells the unknown history of California’s first women lifeguards. The Rio Del Mar resident weaves her own story with those of other women ...

Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died. Weiss died on Tuesday ...

Though Temple B’rith Shalom’s (TBS) weekly Shabbat services are often highlighted by music, singing and harmony, the more than 100 in attendance for Shabbat Shira service on Jan. 30 were treated to ...

It’s never easy getting over a breakup. Fortunately, there are plenty of country songs out there that will help cure any hurt over a lost relationship. These three country songs, all out in the 80s, ...

Grammy-winning baritone Will Liverman focused his True Concord Voices & Orchestra Tucson Desert Song Festival recital last Tuesday on African-American composers from the Harlem Renaissance, including ...

There’s an old quip about church music that goes something like, “No one ever leaves the service humming the sermon.” Indeed, music forms us in deep, lasting and embodied ways that words on their own ...

ANNA — As described by manager Donnie Spurlock, Thrive Dispensary in Anna aims for a person-first approach to helping anyone who comes through the door. One of the dispensary’s regular customers is ...

Song Sung Blue (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Craig Brewer, written by Greg Kohs and Craig Brewer and starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Ella Anderson, Hudson Hensley, King Princess, Michael ...

BEMIDJI — The Bemidji Chorale’s first concerts under the baton of new conductor Isaac Lovdahl will feature songs of healing and holidays. It’s titled “The New Day Concert.” The 66-member Chorale will ...