Arabic music filled the air of Laura Elkeslassy’s Moroccan Jewish childhood home in Paris, especially on Fridays before Shabbat. But she didn’t grow up speaking Arabic, so she didn’t understand the ...
The ‘Rose Cohen Experience’ makes use of ambient recordings, an old sewing machine and a Yiddish women’s prayer ...
“Is It Too Much To Ask” is a song I wrote for the people of Iran & can be found on my YouTube channel ...
Many have titled this as “The Event of a Lifetime!” Zevy Steiger and Aryeh Leib Hurwitz, two world-renowned chazzanim and the Heavy Shtetle Klezmer Band will delight South Florida with authentic ...
For the past 15 years, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has raised awareness to this moment in American history and ...
Italian musicologist Francesco Lotoro has devoted his life to collecting compositions by the Nazis’ prisoners.
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Jews and hats: A thousand-year-old love story

Greenberg was a pioneer of conspicuous Jewishness. Through the 1960s and 1970s, religious Jewish men began wearing kippot in ...
Like many in her generation, Paula Marcus came to Santa Cruz County almost a half-century ago and found it fit her values.  Over her impactful career, Temple Bethel El in Aptos has grown from 100 to ...
Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female ...
Another who had been a really close friend – a doctor – insisted she was well-educated on the conflict, having read Norman ...
So of course I was eager to see the new movie “Song Sung Blue,” a kind of jukebox tear-jerker loosely based on the story of a ...
Mamilla, directed by Rabbi Eliyahu and Chanale Canterman, hosted its 13th annual Yud Tes Kislev celebration, drawing close to ...