Will US-born Hassidic rapper represent Israel at Eurovision?
Will an American-born, Hassidic rapper and convert to Judaism represent Israel at the 2018 Eurovision song contest?
Nissim Baruch Black, the 30-year-old Hassidic recording artist behind the albums Nissim and Lemala, competed Sunday night for the chance to...
“DI NATURE” by Yoeli Falkowitz and Avraham Fried
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qyAirGILyxc
רע, וואָס עס איז זיי שווער צו פֿאַרשטיין זײַן ליטווישן ייִדיש. דערצו איז זײַן מוזיקאַלישער סטיל פֿון נעמען די מעלאָדיעס פֿון רוסישע פֿאָלקסלידער און זיי שפּילן אויף אַן אַקאָרדעאָן הײַנט זייער אַלטמאָדיש. פֿון דעסט...
Why many classic Christmas songs were written by Jewish composers
Immigrant artists — from Irving Berlin to Mel Tormé — penned odes to the mythic fantasies of the American middle class they desperately wanted to join.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3G5gwZ-fsw
An outtake from "Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas" with...
Sephardi music “Ki eshmera Shabbat”
Abraham ibn Ezra
(Rabbi Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra/Abenezra)
(Tudela, 1092 / Calahorra, 1167)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0xd3N1zdaNU
If I observe the Shabat, God will protect me
It is an eternal sign between Him and me.
It is forbidden to carry objects
undertake journeys...
Blind Israeli teen stuns The X Factor Israel
https://www.facebook.com/MilsteinFoundation/videos/1655355221153757/
Wow!
The X Factor Israel אקס פקטור ישראל has no shortage of talent, but 17 year-old Eden is truly remarkable.
Eden, who is blind, may not have been able to see the crowd, but no doubt she...
A capella group details history of Jewish music in 5 minutes
If you've ever listened to Yiddish rap, you know that Jewish music has come a long way over the past few hundred years.
Just how far?
The Y-Studs A Capella group, based at Yeshiva University, has...
120 years later: 3 days in Basel that changed the course of the Jewish...
In late August 1897, some 200 Jews from 17 countries arrived in Basel, Switzerland.
Dressed in festive formal attire, the delegates entered the municipal casino concert hall, which was decorated with blue and white flags...
Three Jewish sisters, pop’s newest music sensation
Think Fleetwood Mac, but Jewish.
HAIM (rhymes with time), a band made up of three Jewish sisters, released their second album, “Something to Tell You,” this month. Following up on their 2013 debut album “Days...
Malpes Mit Tzeklapte Kep (Monkeys and head injuries), song based on “Five Little Monkeys...
A beautiful children’s song performed in Yiddish by Bobe Adina.
Monkeys and head injuries - Based on the famed rhythmic poem ' 5 little monkey's jumping on the bed... ', it makes for an arithmetical...
“Di shisl un dos tepl” (The Platter and the Pot), song based on...
A beautiful children’s song performed in Yiddish by Bobe Adina.
The Platter and the Pot - Both kitchen objects quarrel all the time to try to suggest who is the better one or the more...