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

As she gets ready to leave a festival that has been at the forefront of Jewish music for 30 years, Eleanor Shapiro has no regrets. Why would she? Under Shapiro’s guidance, Berkeley’s Jewish Music ...

NEW YORK – A noted singer of Jewish music is headed for prison after being convicted of stealing $36,000 from a New York City woman who says the money was meant to buy Torah scrolls. Michoel Streicher ...

This program appears in the WMNF Archive for one week following its broadcast. Happy New Year, wonderful Sunday Simcha listeners. This week’s program at 2 PM ET on Sunday, December 28th features an ...

There's a growing cadre of musicians who combine Jewish spiritual lyrics with genres like blues, bluegrass, folk and country. NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...

Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania-based repository for the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive, calls it “among the most important resources in the world for the study of ...

Here we are in the midst of Hanukkah (began on December 6th this year), the Jewish "Festival of Lights" celebrating the successful rededication of their Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean ...

They may not be Big Boi and Andre 3000 (or even Matisyahu), but to the kids at Jewish day schools and camps who get to rap with Matt Bar and Ori Salzberg, these young Jewish educators are hip-hop ...