When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...
“We get lost, or are ineligible, in existing categories,” said Sarah Aroeste, who performs in Ladino. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every ...
A version of this article appeared in Yiddish here. The notion of church congregants listening to a sermon in Yiddish may sound like something out of a comedy routine. But in 1882, a Jewish man by the ...