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.
(JTA) — Jill Sobule, the Jewish pop singer whose hit “I Kissed A Girl” topped charts in the 1990s, has died at 66. The cause of death was a fire at her home outside Minneapolis, her publicist ...
When Israeli pop star Yoni Bloch created a music video in January depicting scenes of the Israeli hostages returning through ...
The American Jewish singer songwriter Peter Yarrow, who died Tuesday at age 86, exemplified the paradoxes of assimilating in the world of pop music. Although he was never bar mitzvahed, following a ...
The 2025 JxJ: DC Jewish Film & Music Festival will take place from May 8-18, showcasing over 25 international screenings and concerts. The festival, a dynamic blend of cinematic and musical talent, ...
The musicians spoke as part of Van Zandt's education nonprofit TeachRock's “Amplifying Jewish Heritage” series.
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Jewish classic revisited

Good news fans of klezmer music. The groundbreaking, award-winning klezmer outfit The Klezmatics have reissued their classic album Rhythm + Jews: Revisited (Piranha, Germany), which was recorded in ...
Although antisemitism and Jewish identity rarely receive such explicit attention in national news media, these themes do more tacitly infuse everyday American popular media. Across films, TV series, ...