Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prisoners are forced to play music as their fello inmates walk to their execution in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria - ...

While Adam Sandler and the late Debbie Friedman are in a class by themselves with Hanukkah hits, the Journal has made a list of 18 more songs that are great not just for Hanukkah, but also for the 357 ...

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

As Jewish music listeners adjust their playlists for the Three Weeks, singer Berel Faiden is releasing a special a cappella ...

Bashert” is how Jacob Shinder describes his first month as song leader at Temple Emanuel of South Hills. As a child, Shinder ...

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish ...

The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews ...

The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, Jewish Cabaret in Exile (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second ...

There is an unsolved mystery at the heart of one of the most popular Jewish songs in history. Every Friday evening, Jews around the world recite the poetic prayer “Lecha Dodi” to welcome the Sabbath.

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...

Listening to performers like Gracie Abrams and Haim helps a teen musician find a Jewish identity that feels authentic to her. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a ...

The passing of Jewish music luminaries in pop, rock, classical, films, and Broadway shows will be honored at the Grammys ceremony–with its traditional In Memoriam segment–on Sunday, February 4. With ...