Cellist Julian Schwarz made his performance debut at the age of nine, playing composer Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei at the ...

Hatikva Project offers symbolically priced concerts, focused on music with meaning, in order to bring comfort The post 11 orchestras play around Israel, marking October 7 anniversary appeared first on ...

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins tonight. In synagogues or in solitude, many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking themselves where they missed the mark. How could they ...

Shortly after it was announced that the terrorist who led the massacre on the roadside bomb shelter in Re'im was eliminated, captivity survivor Eliya Cohen, who was abducted from the shelter, took the ...

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Cantor Jonathan Neil Grant of Orange County, CA, Cantor Emeritus at Temple Bat Yahm in Newport Beach, CA, died at age 66 from complications of ALS. He was at home, lovingly supported by his wife, his ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked 11 school districts in Texas from implementing a new law that would require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The ruling ...

(RNS) — What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like? The question may seem random, as the two figures are so different. One is the Queen of Soul, a Memphis native ...

Growing up, Hillel Friedman was afraid to sing. Now he leads the Woodbury Jewish Center as cantor. Friedman said his family has always listened to and appreciated Jewish music. He recalled attending ...

I am an ordained American Jewish cantor who loves the people and land of Israel and who is fully cognizant of the existential threat that the Iranian regime presents for the world. Still, I ...

This year is the 50th Anniversary of women in the cantorate. I was one of the first ordained women cantors, beginning my studies at Hebrew Union College in 1978 and graduating in 1983. It was a ...