Ishay Ribo Awakens The City That Never Sleeps
By Yochanan Gordon
Madison Square Garden, dubbed “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” and also known as the “Mecca of Basketball,” has been conquered by Israeli music impresario Ishay Ribo. On...
Ishay Ribo Draws Some 15,000 to Madison Square Garden
MIKE WAGENHEIM
(September 5, 2023 / JNS)
Some of recent history’s biggest musical acts have headlined concerts at Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Orthodox Jewish crossover singer Ishay Ribo became the...
A Song And A Prayer
By Yochanan Gordon
The Rambam concludes his Mishnah Torah with a utopian description of how the world will look in the Messianic era. One of the unique features of the...
A Modern Chanukah Miracle
By Yochanan Gordon
Well before founding this newspaper over twenty years ago, my father, the editor and publisher of 5TJT, began his career in the broadcasting industry in a nightly...
Standing with Mordy Shapiro
By Yochanan Gordon
Reports yesterday, by a prominent Jewish News site, regarding mixed dancing at a Mordechai Shapiro concert at Binyamin Ha’umah last night, is an indication of the insidious...
Alex Clare skipped touring with Adele because of Shabbat. Now the Orthodox pop artist...
(JTA) — British musician Alex Clare burst onto the pop music scene with his debut album in 2011, and was offered a chance to tour with megastar Adele.
But the...
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...
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...
Daveed Diggs Wants You to Have a Puppy for Hanukkah
(JTA) — There’s a long history of Jewish artists releasing parody songs for Hanukkah, but this year’s most catchy addition to the holiday canon may be Daveed Diggs’ new...
Battle of the Singers Links Benny and Mordechai With Yachad
More than 5,000 people tuned in as the Orthodox Union’s (OU) Yachad, the leading organization for individuals with disabilities in the Orthodox community, raised $150,000 during its virtual “Battle...