Ishay Ribo, Avraham Fried, Yaakov Shwekey, Zusha and Yair Elaytzur together at Jerusalem’s Sultan’s Pool for one historic ...
“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, ...
The first, Thursday afternoon, September 3, at 2 p.m. will showcase the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, the Jewish-born ...
The Jewish Bluegrass of Nefesh Mountain, Syrian Jewish music from Asher Shasho Levy, a selection of show tunes that reflects the influence Jewish composers continue to have on Broadway, klezmer music, ...
Jacob Michael, noted American Jewish philanthropist, presented his collection of Jewish music — one of the largest in the world — to the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University ...
(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 ...
Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.