The Jewish people have an incredibly diverse tradition of music throughout the Diaspora. Immigrants brought them to Israel, ...

One afternoon in 1960, Abshalom Ben Shlomo and a friend were walking home from Englewood High School in Chicago when they ...

[11] Ancient music historian Joachim Braun notes that Philo had mentioned ritualist vigils near Alexandria, that included a meal and the singing of hymns by a double chorus as accompaniment to the ...

UMD Choral Activities: Festival of Lessons & Carols — Led by Music Director Jason Max Ferdinand, this 23rd annual holiday ...

Odesa-based urban folk band Kommuna Lux will make its West Coast debut, making several stops in the Bay Area in September and ...

It’s more than 40 years since she published an edition and translation of two short works by Augustine on St Paul’s Epistle ...

Selichot are traditional prayers for forgiveness that are said in the month preceding Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. These ancient prayers are typically sad and self-deprecating ... “My family ...

The moment Alain Dancyger began his new role as executive director of the Jewish Public Library, he set out to make the iconic Montreal institution far more than just about ...

7 from the Nova Music Festival in Southern Israel ... Today’s parallels with ancient Jewish trauma are overwhelming. In the face of this new and even more horrifying reality, with 97 hostages ...