LENOX -- Joshua Nelson's got soul. A black Jewish gospel singer, he made his first appearance at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival in 2002 and is back again for an encore this summer. To celebrate ...

Apple’s iTunes has labeled some of the most well-known Jewish and Hasidic singers in the online music store “Christian & Gospel” section. The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that musicians such as ...

Joshua Nelson doesn’t want to hear the Sammy Davis Jr. jokes. He’s heard them all. “I actually used to get offended by them. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re a black Jew, just like Sammy Davis, right?’ ” ...

For anyone attending a contemporary African American worship service, the experience carries “an expectation of participation,” said the Rev. Derrick Hammond, pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church in ...

It was an evening to remember: One hundred and seventeen Jewish high-school students from suburban Los Angeles — some of them wearing yarmulkes — singing, swaying and clapping their hands to gospel ...

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