TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old soprano Shani Chamovitz flew in on a 10-hour flight from Israel, landing at Newark Airport at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday for the annual North American Jewish ...

On Nov. 20, Mostly Kosher brought its unique flair of klezmer rock to UCLA. The band – which focuses on traditional klezmer music with modern genres ranging from jazz and Latin to rock and folk – ...

The Sway Machinery have long been the bridge between a few different worlds. Founded by Jeremiah Lockwood, the grandson of a famous cantor who also spent ...

Thanks to a mammoth klezmer digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations.

(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 ...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. When searching for songs for a playlist I was putting together for my kids on Spotify, I came across a tune — “Pana HaGeshem,” (“The Rain has Gone Away”) ...

Other great Jewish pianists, whose artistry will be heard during the recorded program, will be Vilna-born Nadia Riesenberg, ...

The Jewish Bluegrass of Nefesh Mountain, Syrian Jewish music from Asher Shasho Levy, a selection of show tunes that reflects the influence Jewish composers continue to have on Broadway, klezmer music, ...

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 ...

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?’ ” ...

Temple Beth El will host its third annual Jewish Music & Culture Festival starting Tuesday. The event runs through Feb. 10. This year’s all-Zoom program offers a blend of new and returning presenters.

Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday. She was 83. Damari, who was battling pneumonia, had ...