Have you ever thought about what makes a good song? The Virginia-born Miri Hunter Haruach, who lives in Los Angeles, is a folk singer, playwright, student of Judaism and proud purveyor of a doctorate ...

Singing Hebrew psalms with a Jamaican lilt over bass-heavy “riddims,” Matisyahu (right) may have hit upon the year’s most unlikely formula for pop success: Hasidic Judaism and reggae. Now the ...

In times of peril, writes a Jewish studies scholar, Jews must learn to hope in a minor key. This story was originally published on My Jewish Learning. (JTA) — On Saturday morning, most of the ...

Jewish music arrived gently, on a Jerusalem breeze. The northern midnight breeze, said King David, blew through his window, caressing the strings of his bedside lyre, providing not only divine ...

What role does the Hebrew language play for a Polish author, poet and literature specialist? Julia Fiedorczuk speaks about her memories of the Jewish past of Serock, singing psalms and the need for ...

There is even a lullaby-like tune for singing the 15 steps of the Seder themselves. Some families sing them before beginning the Seder, as a musical table of contents for the book they are about the ...

I give in to an impulse to fly to the United States. My granddaughter Shani, 14, is singing in HaZamir: The International Jewish Teen Choir, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She’s not a soloist.