Jewish Music

600 Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren sing in a moving tribute to the power of life and good over evil. Project organized by Koolulam, and filmed at Jerusalem's Beit Avi Chai center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Vuh1-jDi7Qw

Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain. Since then, it has picked up influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, and the other places that Spanish...

The Cleveland POPS Orchestra will perform “A Broadway Celebration: Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins: A Centennial Celebration” from 8 to 11 p.m. March 2 at Severance Hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. “The...

The Youth Centre ‘Amichai’ in Frankfurt has won this year’s Jewrovision contest, Europe’s biggest dance and singing competition for Jewish youth, which took place for the first time in the city of Dresden. Dr. Josef...

Paul Simon has announced he will be retiring from regular touring gigs. At 76-years-old, he has had a career of about 60 years. Simon, although Jewish, never highlighted his religion. His stance goes against...

Two Palm Beach County synagogues are planning fundraising concerts. Israeli singer/songwriter Noa will perform her hit songs on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El in Palm Beach, while Cantor Norman Brody sings songs from...

IN THE 1960s musicians broke through the invisible barrier of the three-minute pop song. The single that did it, which rose to number 2, in fact, was Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965). Its six minutes...

In mid-September 1938, Benito Mussolini stood on an immense platform in the port city of Trieste’s Piazza dell’ Unita d’Italia and delivered a radio broadcast to the Italian people. Far below him, thousands had packed...

The concert Flamenco Sephardit which celebrates two distinct Spanish cultures fused together through music, dance and poetry returns to Miami Beach for the fifth consecutive year on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. This upcoming fifth...

German Jewish guitarist Coco Schumann, who had a more than seven-decade-long career in swing and jazz music and survived several Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 93, his music label said Monday. “Not only his...