Tag: Jewish music

Yes. It was time to finally make this happen.

A miracle did not take place for us / A can of oil we did not find.

Six13's newest Chanukah song.

The public is asked to please continue prayers for the healing of Oded David Ben Zipporah.

Already on Broadway for a few years, ‘Soul Doctor, Journey of a Rockstar Rabbi’, based on the life of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, has now come to Jerusalem! Eve Harow interviews Marc Zell, who plays Shlomo’s father in the show. Hear behind the scenes insights into their relationship, the production and the other actors today on Rejuvenation.

The first time I saw Matisyahu perform he was mesmerising. It was 2006, at the height of his chassidic phase...

Syria, AIPAC, music, and ...did Bibi dye his hair?

The Maccabees and the latest anti-Israel resolution at the U.N.

On Friday afternoon, just before Shabbat, this happy young man knocked on our door. I asked him, "How do I know if it's any good?"

Charles Krauthammer is widely regarded as one of the most influential political commentators in America today. A contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, Krauthammer is also a nightly commentator on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier and a weekly panelist on PBS’s Inside Washington. Close to 250 newspapers carry his weekly column, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1987.

As the lights dimmed on Broadway for 60 seconds last night in memory of Oscar-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, who died on Monday, I took a moment to reflect on the moment in 1976 when I interviewed Hamlisch.

It's not easy being a modern, Jewish singer/songwriter and refuse to utter a preachy note about anything, refuse to be a nice Jewish boy, and refuse to include a clarinet in your music. That's why The Groggers stand out – because they manage to do great punk rock that's totally and irrefutably Jewish without ever sounding like they need to get approval from some mashgiach.

An unparalleled musical production featuring 39 Jewish music superstars made its worldwide debut Thursday at the Jewish Children's Museum in Crown Heights. "Unity for Justice" is a unique display of solidarity for the family of incarcerated Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, whose sentencing of 27 years in federal prison last year has led to a thunderous outcry by the Jewish community and a number of government officials. The project serves as an innovative campaign for financial support of the Rubashkin Defense Fund, drawing mounting online interest by the hour.

In late August, Jewish music sensation and Shlomo Carlebach/Bob Marley hybrid Matisyahu released "Light," his third album. Having enjoyed his first two albums immensely, and already humming some of Matisyahu's new tracks, I began to wax philosophical while listening to his newest compilation. I asked myself: Can we define ourselves by what we think of Matisyahu and his music?

Not widely appreciated during his lifetime, composer Gustav Mahler famously predicted, "My time will yet come." And it did. Aaron Blumenfeld, a 77-year-old composer from the San Francisco Bay Area, hopes a similar future is in store for him - and the sooner, the better.

In honor of Chanukah, a time of joy, I have been delving into the realm of Jewish music.

The new face of Jewish pop music wears a black hat and jacket and a long beard.

Seth Nadel is active - so much so that his guitar playing can be called "kinetic music," to borrow Agam's term.