Jewish music star Yaakov Shwekey launched his latest project with a private concert at the Bell Works Theater in New Jersey, ...

Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list ...

(JTA) — When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we thought it might be cool to hire a klezmer band. This was during the first wave of the klezmer revival, when groups like The Klezmatics and The ...

Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp. Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ...

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

Temple Beth El will host its third annual Jewish Music & Culture Festival starting Tuesday. The event runs through Feb. 10. This year’s all-Zoom program offers a blend of new and returning presenters.

“We’re kind of hard-wired to digest grief and turn it into art or song,” said Elana Brody, a Jewish singer-songwriter. (JTA) — It was only about a week into lockdown last spring when Elana Brody took ...

During Chanukah, a group of Chabad bochurim from Oholei Torah Mesivta brought Jewish music, dancing, and pride to Times ...

Tikva Records was founded as an independent Jewish record label in 1947. For three decades, it would record everything from folk songs to klezmer... Reviving 'Songs For The Jewish-American Jet Set' ...

Israel Isadore Baline was 5 when his family fled Russia for the United States after a bloody pogrom. It was an event the boy never forgot. He also remembered the day he arrived in his new homeland, ...