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Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...

The matriarch of a musical family and a grandmother of seven, Dardashti will debut “Build Me a Home” at a Westchester synagogue on Sunday. Sheila Dardashti has spent her lifetime making music — but ...

TORONTO — Ariel Wyner dedicated his band’s rendition of “Do You Hear Jerusalem Moan?” to slain American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Then he started strumming the mandolin. The band sang ...

Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

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Songwriter Lil' Rev performed a bluesy tribute to Jewish folk music he fondly refers to as "Jewgrass" on Wednesday at the Moline Public Library, 3210 41st St. His program "Fiddler on the Roof Meets O ...

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will focus on Jewish music and culture with two events in February. “Klezmer & Kabbalah,” a free lecture and Q&A, is Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. at Temple ...

(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish music festival will take place in Bethel, New York in August — at the very same location where the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place in August of ...

From left, Seraphic Fire singers Luc Kleiner, Elisse Albian, William Duffy, and Ian Schipper. Seraphic Fire performs a series of a cappella concerts, “Jewish Voices,” throughout South Florida. (Photo ...

The enduring popularity of Christian rock is hardly news: for years now, churches in the U.S. and elsewhere have been attracting worshippers with music performed in all kinds of non-liturgical forms, ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, “Mama Cass” Elliot. But what if there had been an entire Jewish family ...