“God bless America”, written by Irving Berlin
“God Bless America” is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later...
“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in...
Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the core of everyone of...
בת הים הכשרה ~ The Kosher Mermaid
דיסני ביידיש? הו כן! לכבוד ראש השנה צללתי למעמקים בעקבות המאכלים היהודיים הכשרים (ואלו ש...פחות) והגעתי למסקנה מעניינת! לובסטר או גפילטע פיש? צמחונים? חכו לזה :) Disney in... Yiddish? YO! In honor of ROSH...
Tapping into the ‘Golden Age’ of cantorial music for the 21st century
Aryeh Leib Hurwitz is attuned to all things musical. A chazzan (“cantor”) and ordained Chabad rabbi born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he studied at yeshivahs around the world while honing his voice and performing...
Shalva Band to be honored with top media award
The Shalva Band will be granted a special citation for fostering Israel-Diaspora relations through the arts, as part of the B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism, Israel Hayom has learned.
Formed in 2005 by the Shalva...
Band places impressive song in impressive Hanukkah film
The latest entry to the ever-growing musical category of “modern Hanukkah songs” has arrived.
Distant Cousins—the popular Los Angeles-based band featuring former Blue Fringe frontman Dov Rosenblatt, Moshav’s Duvid Swirsky and singer-songwriter Ami Kozak—has a...
Fusing bluegrass with Judaism, Nefesh Mountain seeks to uplift during challenging times
Thanks to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and the Torah, Mount Sinai is the best-known mountain in Jewish history. If the husband-and-wife bluegrass team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff continue their climb through...
Q&A: A Yiddish-speaking gumshoe with a tapping toe
Gale Kissin, 67, wears several hats. She not only sings and plays guitar and percussion in Mama Loshn, the Yiddish revival band she co-founded, but she’s spent decades working with attorneys as a private investigator. Though...
WATCH: ‘‘We Shall Overcome’’ sung in Yiddish
אין ליכט פֿון די באַנײַטע פּראָטעסטן לטובֿת די רעכט פֿון אַפֿריקאַנער אַמעריקאַנער, איז כּדאַי ווידער זיך צוצוהערן צום רירנדיקן נוסח פֿונעם הימען פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער בירגעררעכט־באַוועגונג „מיר וועלן איבערלעבן“, וואָס מיישקע אַלפּערט, פֿראַנק לאָנדאָן...
