Kirstin x Grohl Honor Jews in Music for Each Night of Hanukkah
BY GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) — Dave Grohl, who is best known as the leader of the 12-time Grammy winning band Foo Fighters, isn’t Jewish. But he’s having a lot of musical...
Rogosnitzky’s New CD Sets Reveal the Soul of High Holiday Davening
By Sandy Eller
Three times a day, we open our Siddurim and our hearts to the Ribbono shel Olam. As much as tefillah plays a large part in our everyday...
Yochanan Gordon: Fried, Geffen Collaborate on ‘Betzoret’
Aside from the “Av” that begins both of their first names, or aleph beis if the letters were written in Hebrew, and the fact that Avraham Fried and Aviv...
Yiddish Songs Thought Lost Now Nominated for Grammy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0YofvjvLU&feature=youtu.be
BY PENNY SCHWARTZ
BOSTON (JTA) — In the despair of the Soviet Union’s fierce World War II battles against the Nazis, a 42-year-old Jewish man from Odessa wrote a song in...
Gad Elbaz: Bridging The Spiritual Gap Through Music
By Rochelle Maruch Miller
Music is the...
Neshama Carlebach to Sing at Central Synagogue
(JTA) — In January 2018, Central Synagogue in New York City placed a one-year moratorium on using the music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. On Friday, his daughter will perform...
Thousands of Brazilians Join Koolulam for YouTube Performance
BY MARCUS M. GILBAN
SAO PAULO (JTA) – Thousands of Brazilians, Jews and non-Jews, joined a popular Israeli musicale held for the first time in Latin America.
Some 3,000 people gathered Sunday...
Belz Chassid Singer Shulem Lemmer Signs Major Record Deal
Marking perhaps the first time that a singer from the orthodox Hasidic community has been signed to major label, Shulem Lemmer’s debut singles, “Bring Him Home,” and “Jerusalem Of...
Nissim Black Raps For Aid L’shalom On Chanukah
By Toby Klein Greenwald
In an eclectic combination of musical and theatrical acts, on Sunday, December 9, rapper Nissim Black will be headlining two concerts in the Master Theater, 1029...
Y-Studs Make This ‘The Greatest Passover’
Y-Studs A Cappella is bringing some sparkle to Pesach with “The Greatest Passover,” inspired by the movie “The Greatest Showman.”
http://youtu.be/UlEipKO1fhw
Y-Studs, or the "Yeshiva Students," is an a cappella group...