Tag: Jewish Music
Sounds of the season: Live and pre-recorded performances to boost holiday worship
Relix magazine and the Brooklyn Bowl are well-known to music lovers worldwide. This year, they will become even better known as they host “High Holidays –A Suite of Spiritually Driven Holiday Services,” an innovative musical worship experience...
Auschwitz survivor who used music to help combat racism, anti-Semitism dies at 96
Holocaust survivor Esther Bejarano died on July 10 at the Jewish Hospital in Hamburg, Germany, at the age of 96, according to The Associated Press.
Born in 1924 in the French-occupied German town of Saarlouis, Bejarano...
Music of the Jewish Diaspora Festival
Presented in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Yiddish New York and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance
TONIGHT! 6:30PM
The Beary Brothers Featuring Psoy Korolenko,
Zisl Slepovitch and Ilya Shneyveys
New Location:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, Safra...
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...
Going a capella for the period of Jewish mourning
When comedian Mendy Pellin posted on Twitter that “Sefira music is the audio equivalents of Pesach cereal,” he was referring to the recent trend of Orthodox singers to produce albums and singles of a capella music...
Black (and Jewish): Braving the pitfalls, Jews of color find inner and outer peace
It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis and shtreimel—paired with a cascade of gold chains (one bearing a Magen David) and leopard-skin scarf—dancing with guys...
Grave of Samuel Cohen, composer of Hatikvah is restored
Shmuel Cohen, or Sam Cohen to us less Yiddish aware, is a relatively common Jewish name. There are 708 Sam Cohens in just California and New York alone. There is only one Shmuel Cohen...
The Joys of Sukkot
During the Sukkot holiday, the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles erupts in joyful celebration. Our forty-plus kosher restaurants all have sukkot attached. There’s a sukkah on top of Ralph’s supermarket. One could conceivably sukkah...