Authenticity – The Music Of The Waterbury Mesivta
The yeshiva is all about authenticity and feeling, [being] real with yourself, Rabbi Wolf told me. When you have those thoughts, you think of real stuff, it generates inspiration, and the students share it with the world.
Wedding Season Music Trends
A lot more songs during dance sets are rock or electronic style, Mordy says. It used to be more freilach, but recently the music has more of a rock, electronic, and trance vibe.
The Yom Yerushalayim Playlist
As a teenager, we used to go on Yom Yerushalayim to the Rikud Degalim (March of Flags). The whole city filled with boys and girls dressed in blue and white holding flags of Israel in their hands, storming the streets with dancing, joy, and happiness, celebrating Yerushalayim.
The Music of Lag B’Omer
The beauty of klezmer music is that you don’t need to understand the language. Because there’s no language. It’s only music.
Mordy Weinstein – Not Just A Cappella
The first time Mordy started to sing was in high school. First, however, he learned how to play a guitar. Just because it was cool.
Yom HaZikaron And Yom HaAtzma’ut Music
Despite the controversy and arguments between the different groups, we always need to remember that – left, right, secular, religious, haredi, Ashkenazi, Sefaradi – we are still one nation, Am Yisrael.
B’Shetzef – He’s Just Turned Around
For years there was a controversy in Israel about the date of Yom HaShoah. The suggestion was for it to be on the day that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started.
Pesach Special: Young Musicians
I have a feeling that you’re going to hear about these two a lot in the future. They both grew up in very musical homes and music has been part of their lives since they were born.
Avigdor Gavish: Samaria Soul
As Avigdor puts it, from his father, he and his siblings got the military part, and from his mother the music part.
Bendigamos
The reason that I liked so much to go to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is because of the special nusach that they still daven there, a nusach that goes back hundreds of years. They still pray in the original style that they prayed in when the shul began.
Aderaba – A Lesson In Achdut
Many Jewish songs have been written and composed based on Rabbi Elimelech’s writings and tefillot that he composed. Rabbi Elimelech was also a composer and composed a few niggunim.
The Purim Playlist (Part II)
This is one of the greatest holidays in the year for musicians, perhaps the busiest, and so there are many songs and performances of Purim songs.
Purim Party Playlist (Part I)
In our column we’re going to have some oldies together with some contemporary music. I’m not only going to suggest Purim songs, but also other upbeat songs that will cause you to hold hamantaschen in one hand, a good bottle of wine (or whiskey) in the other hand, and start dancing! Hora!
The Music Of Shabbat
I still make sure to sing mostly the tunes and melodies my father sings. But at the same time I also love and enjoy listening to the new versions, new tunes that the different singers perform on their albums. But the melodies from the albums stay in the car, or wherever I listen to music.
Shtar Hatana’im Or Shtar Hatno’im?
The song is about a “shtar tena’im – an engagement contract between a chatan and kallah, a groom and a bride. And we’re going to talk about this song and explain it. What a beautiful song!
Eretz Asher Tamid – A Playlist For Tu B’Shvat
I can imagine Rabbi Nachman standing in the middle of the cold forests of Ukraine, yearning for and dreaming of Eretz Yisrael. The kedusha, the holiness of the land.
The Super Bowl Playlist
So this Sunday is the big game, and whether you’re hosting a Super Bowl party in your house and looking for the best playlist to dance with your guests during the break, or just watching with friends and family, I’ll have you covered.
Music In High Frequencies: How To Select A Music Player
In order to listen to hi-res music, we need a special music player which can play these files. These players are relatively expensive, but they are worth the price.
Israel’s Right And Left Reflected In Its Music
Interesting fact: Go on Google or Wikipedia and search for the famous picture of Sadat and Begin in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem when he came to visit Israel. Look closely at his tie and see the pattern. What symbol is repeating on his tie? (Hint: Swastika.)
Running To Protect Jews
Music has power. Sometimes music is the power behind big movements. OK, saying it’s the power behind movements might be too exaggerated, but it definitely accompanies and empowers movements and social processes.
A Satmar Musical Surprise
You know how it is when a song gets stuck into your head and you keep humming it? This song just got into my head and I had to find it.
Mendi’s Notes
I still love this music, but to some kids it was not appealing as it sounded kind of anachronistic. Not to mention that most (if not all) of the singers dress and look charedi; in other words, they didn’t look like rock stars.
Better, And Better, And Better
The narrator then prays to Hashem that he’ll lead him in the right way, so everyone will see that the tefillot are get accepted. He then asks Hashem to allow him to always smile, to be healthy, and sing.
Overcoming The Silence
While the themes of Terror, Faith, and Hope dominate the artworks and the wall texts that accompany each image, it is the hand and heart of each individual artist that opens a deeply human dimension to this exhibition.
Exhibition Review: Jewish Artists Take On Jew-Hate
Many of the artworks here naturally reference the Holocaust as the summation of antisemitism.
A ‘Legend of Destruction’ for Our Time
A new film about the fall of the Second Temple reminds us that our disputes must never be allowed to deteriorate into a rift resulting in destruction.
October 7 On The Stage: A Gut-Punch That Should Be Seen By All
The roles the actors play are all inherently difficult, as it is impossible to recreate what one would feel like during a massacre.
Golda: A Masterful Film About Israel’s Wartime Female Prime Minister
As a woman in particular in a war room, [Golda Meir] had to take control of the situation and make them understand that her voice as going to be an important part of the whole thing and they should not sideline her, Mirren agreed.
Yissachar Dror – Yachid Bimlucha – You Are a Star
Dror started gathering songs to record an album and while that was getting underway, his brother-in-law introduced him to his now-wife. The album, entitled Yachid Bimlucha – You are a Star, started to take shape and reflected a multitude of emotions and musical styles.
Gershon Veroba – Man To Man – 40th Anniversary Release
And the new-old album delivers. Why buy the new version? Because 40 years later, it finally sounds the way it was meant to sound. Perfected.
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