As she gets ready to leave a festival that has been at the forefront of Jewish music for 30 years, Eleanor Shapiro has no regrets. Why would she? Under Shapiro’s guidance, Berkeley’s Jewish Music ...

The first Hebrew production of Der Kaiser von Atlantis brings Ullmann’s opera to stages across Israel this month. The ...

“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, ...

Here we are in the midst of Hanukkah (began on December 6th this year), the Jewish "Festival of Lights" celebrating the successful rededication of their Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean ...

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli record company, struggling against piracy, said on Wednesday it has launched a pay service for downloading Hebrew music that it hopes will lure local song swappers from free ...

Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania-based repository for the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive, calls it “among the most important resources in the world for the study of ...

Other great Jewish pianists, whose artistry will be heard during the recorded program, will be Vilna-born Nadia Riesenberg, ...

Recently, before a packed audience in New York, a musician named Yaniv Tsaidi readjusted the clip holding down his yarmulke, stepped toward his microphone and began to scream. But the 29-year-old ...

Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday after suffering from pneumonia. She was 83. Damari, ...

Musician and creator Shai Barak presents a new AI music video ahead of Hanukkah starring the greatest singers of Jewish music ...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) ...

There's a growing cadre of musicians who combine Jewish spiritual lyrics with genres like blues, bluegrass, folk and country. NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In ...