This article originally appeared on Kveller. When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) ...

Flora Polnauer, 28, tilts back her head, half closes her eyes and hums a few bars of a song by her hip-hop/funk/reggae band HaGesher. The song is "Lecha Dodi," the Shabbat evening prayer—sounded over ...

As a journalist for The Atlantic, Yair Rosenberg is known for his writing about politics, culture, and religion. He’s written for Tablet; his newsletter Deep Shtetl has a significant following; and of ...

This past week Rolling Stone magazine published an updated list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” It was the first time the list has been updated since 2004, and out of curiosity, we combed the ...

In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, a 10-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender sang a song called "My Mother's Grave" to a Soviet ethnomusicologist in Bratslav, Ukraine.

In “Remember That We Suffered,” a song in the musical theater-based TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” a rabbi character played by Patti Lupone laments on behalf of Jewish educators everywhere, “I mean, ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 Copy URL ABSTRACT The article discusses Naomi Shemer's ...

On a chilly Sunday afternoon, the sanctuary of the Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church offered a place of warmth, and of friendship ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tanowitz and the composer David Lang talk about how their new work is informed by biblical poetry, Israeli folk dance and their Jewish heritage. By ...

Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend. Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and ...