The new face of Jewish pop music wears a black hat and jacket and a long beard. He embeds divrei Torah in his songs, which rely heavily on Jewish content. But his songs don’t come from the shtetl.
(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish music festival will take place in Bethel, New York in August — at the very same location where the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place in August of ...
Good news fans of klezmer music. The groundbreaking, award-winning klezmer outfit The Klezmatics have reissued their classic ...
An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a Hasidic ...
His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Gedalia, who said his father had had a cardiac arrest in May and never recovered. Columbia Law Velvel Pasternak, a leading publisher of Jewish music ...
Matisyahu, whose music blends reggae, rock, and hip-hop with Hasidic themes, performs at Charlottesville's Jefferson Theater ...
Matisyahu released his seventh studio album “Ancient Child,” and on Thursday, Oct. 23, the genre-bending performer brings his ...
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Yamim Ba’im, starring Orthodox Israeli superstar Ishay Ribo, will take place Aug. 7 at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — the same site as the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival. An Orthodox Jewish ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox ...