Brazil is not usually considered to be one of the worldwide centers of cultural Jewish life. But the country recently hosted what is believed to be the largest Jewish dance festival outside Israel.

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tanowitz and the composer David Lang talk about how their new work is informed by biblical poetry, Israeli folk dance and their Jewish heritage. By ...

What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...

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Buy a piece of Jewish jewelry. Watch a Jewish folk dance. Learn about a synagogue. For Jewish-American Festival Chairman Phil Deitchman, the event should be both educational and fun. “For the ...

The songs of prayer and worship that Eyal Reuveni remembers as a toddler living in Israel seemed like muted background music from a distant time and place. But these days, the Irvine teen has found a ...

The impromptu group sings a collection of Israeli and Jewish folk songs and standards, from “Hava Nagila” to songs professing a hope for peace and a brighter future, like “Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu,” or ...

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” How do you translate this, the first line of the Bible’s Song of Songs—or the rest of this ancient collection of erotic poems—into a dance? And how do ...

Mayim, mayim, mayim, mayim. Brazil is not usually considered to be one of the worldwide centers of cultural Jewish life. But the country recently hosted what is believed to be the largest Jewish dance ...