(JTA) — On the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, the voice of Milton Steinberg rose to the heavens. For more than a decade Steinberg, a Holocaust survivor with a resonant voice and a lifelong ...

Cantor Gershon Ephros, compiler of the five-volume “Cantorial Anthology,” was cited tonight by the Jewish Music Council for his contributions to Jewish music. The award was presented to him on the ...

Jeremiah Lockwood comes from a family of cantors, the spiritual leaders that guide Jewish congregations in prayer and song. His grandfather, the late Jacob Konigsberg, served as a cantor in several ...

Where does Jewish cantorial music belong? If you are Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi, you perform it in a synagogue–but also in the world’s concert halls, at festivals, churches, cruise ships, on TV–and even ...

Jeremiah Lockwood is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter and visionary. He has appeared with J-Dub artists Balkan Beat Box and released a blues-oriented solo album “American Primitive” (Vee-Ron ...

(JNS) Maybe “bubbie” can win a Grammy. Two Jewish musicians are working to create a Jewish music category for the Grammy Awards — one that might just have Jewish grammys singing along. They might even ...

Nathaniel Popper's Jan. 19 "Singing Sensations" (Houses of Worship, Taste page, Weekend Journal) refers to "an earlier mostly forgotten era of Jewish cantorial music, during the 1930s and '40s, when ...

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