“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis H. Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

(New York Jewish Week) — After she finished her compulsory military service as a singer in an IDF performing arts troupe, Israeli folk singer Bat Ella wasn’t sure how she would incorporate music into ...

On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...

In an underground reservoir built 1,233 years ago in a city that saw sectarian riots last year, visitors hear a beguiling musical composition that combines Arab love songs with Hebrew poetry. By ...

(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 ...

TikTok's latest musical craze has nothing to do with pop stars or Top 40 hits. Instead, users are obsessing over a 2007 recording of a choir of Jewish tween boys singing an Orthodox pop song in Hebrew ...

Singer-songwriter Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, also known as Connie Francis, passed away on Wednesday at 87-years-old. The president of Francis's record label, Concetta Records, Ron Roberts, first ...

Musician Yosef Gutman Levitt has had an unusual journey. He grew up on a farm in South Africa, where he developed a deep appreciation for jazz. Then, he came to America to study at the prestigious ...

On a chilly Sunday afternoon, the sanctuary of the Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church offered a place of warmth, and of friendship forged in history, and shared struggles expressed in music. A concert, "Songs ...

“His brand is toxic, his brand is trash,” said former fan Yitz Jordan, the Black and Jewish rapper known as Y-Love. “There’s nothing I would want to do with it.” (JTA) — Simon Vozick-Levinson has ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...