Sandler's song — which celebrates the many famous Jewish people in Hollywood — has become a yearly classic Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Put on your yarmulke: It’s time for ...
The new face of Jewish pop music wears a black hat and jacket and a long beard. He embeds divrei Torah in his songs, which rely heavily on Jewish content. But his songs don’t come from the shtetl.
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 ...
On Nov. 20, Mostly Kosher brought its unique flair of klezmer rock to UCLA. The band – which focuses on traditional klezmer music with modern genres ranging from jazz and Latin to rock and folk – ...
It all started with another video which circulated on WhatsApp groups. An African-American man puts gas in his car while listening to some very Jewish song. Now, you know those videos which you get in ...
Some Phishy activity is happening around the region this week. The first Phish event is at Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 11. Phish heads will ...
Police officials subjected the prominent opera singer, Leon Kortyli, to a severe grilling following his inclusion of a Jewish song into his performance. Kortyli had been warned by the “Starosta” of ...
Many people know Barbra Streisand as the awkward Jewish girl from Brooklyn who grew up to become one of the best-selling recording artists of all time — and an award-winning actor, director, producer, ...
When I saw this morning that a foundation had just donated $100 million to Robert Kraft’s initiative to combat antisemitism, which includes television commercials among its efforts, an idea popped ...
Julie Benko and Talia Suskauer were among a group of Broadway performers who sang the “Rent” classic at Park Avenue Synagogue. Park Avenue Synagogue introduced a new practice during Rosh Hashanah to ...