Folknet and Roots of American Music will sponsor the premiere showing of the documentary “Singing for Justice” at 2 p.m. Aug.

Bentzi Marcus inspired by Shabbos Nachamu, Yossi Green's children and grandchildren sing his Asher Yotzar, and South African Shmuli Brill sings Ashrei Ha’am.

I saw Yarrow sing for Jewish audiences, and I appreciated it. And somewhere along the way, I learned that Yarrow was convicted in 1970 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl when he was over 30.

In the 1950s the song began to take hold outside the Jewish world. Most famously, the renown American singer Harry Belafonte, would sing it.

The Four Questions were then chanted in Hebrew by a 15-year-old who came with her two dads, and were read in English by an 11-year-old secular Jew, attending her first Jewish holiday celebration.

For its second year, the Jewish Festival will provide a space for the celebration of Jewish culture and heritage.

The center opened its doors on Friday, at an event co-organized by the Jerusalem-based nonprofit organization Shavei Israel, which does outreach to people with Jewish origins in Portugal and other ...