Thick on the ground, animadversions against Jewish music and those who made it were once so abundant they could easily fill a book — and, recently, they have: Ruth HaCohen’s “The Music Libel ...

Eastern European synagogue music had been dealt a double blow on its home turf, first by the rise of Soviet communism, which actively sought to suppress Jewish tradition from the 1920s onward, and ...

In the late nineteenth century, three forms of music dominated Jewish neighborhoods: Yiddish theatre, secular art songs, and chazzonus (cantorial music). Each one of these genres is considered to ...

Re “The Music You Won’t Hear on Rosh Hashana” (Op-Ed, Sept. 9): I’m not certain about Miles Hoffman’s attendance at services in various synagogues, or how much he’s studied 20th ...

But he wasn’t one of her congregants, synagogue clergy or staff members. He was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, perhaps the most prominent 20th-century composer of American Jewish music.

Shivtei Yeshuron-Ezras Israel, a South Philly row home synagogue established in 1909, is hosting a Radical Jewish Music Concert Series as part of the Hidden City Festival this month. Abraxas, a ...

Abstract This historical ethnography of music-making in an interwar Istanbul neighborhood aims to expand our understanding of Turkish Jewish women and their musical lives. Jewish religious law ...

Temple Beth Shira in Boca Raton will feature the work of Michael Isaacson, a composer of Jewish music, at a fundraising virtual concert, "The Music and and it's Story: A Sacred Duet," on Feb. 21.

Palm Beach Synagogue hosted a "Pink Party" at the Colony Hotel Aug. 10 to celebrate Tu B'Av, the Jewish holiday of love. More ...

Temple of Aaron, a Conservative congregation of about 700 families, is inviting families to bundle up and have fun on what Rubenstein believes is the first-ever skating rink on a synagogue property.