TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old soprano Shani Chamovitz flew in on a 10-hour flight from Israel, landing at Newark Airport at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday for the annual North American Jewish ...

Matisyahu will headline the inaugural event, which will feature two stages of music, comedy, kids programming and kosher food ...

(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 ...

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.” ...

As part of Jewish American Heritage Month, Congregation Ahavas Achim is hosting "American Jewish Music: The Story Behind the ...

Musician Yosef Gutman Levitt has had an unusual journey. He grew up on a farm in South Africa, where he developed a deep appreciation for jazz. Then, he came to America to study at the prestigious ...

(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 ...

Running from May 7-17 across DC, MD, and VA, the festival will feature 30+ international screenings and concerts. Screenings ...

This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ethnographer and folklorist named Sofia Magid gave the Jewish world a precious ...

The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Artistic Director, will perform A Bouquet of Jewish Choral Music on Sunday, September 22 at 3:00 PM at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street ...

(JTA) — When the Jewish group IfNotNow asked educator and musician Shoshana Jedwab whether it could include her song “Where You Go” in its songbook, Jedwab offered a cautious yes. The year was 2018, ...

A Sydney benefit concert for Bondi Beach attack victims was canceled after a Greek choir voted not to perform with a Jewish ...