Cologne's inaugural Shalom Music festival unites classical, jazz, club, folk and even medieval music under the banner of Jewish music. But does anything actually unite this radically diverse program?

Shir festival director Ben Adler shares the inspiration behind Unbreakable, why friendship with other communities is so ...

Tina Frühauf, the author of Experiencing Jewish Music in America, states: “Whether one defines it as music made by Jews, for Jews, or in a Jewish style (whatever that may be) or music with Jewish ...

What makes music Jewish? Jazz pianist Joe Alterman explores Jewish influences on American music, from Broadway and jazz to ...

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 category ...

Until Yoni Battat '13 was a teenager, Jewish music meant klezmer. In his synagogue and at his Jewish school outside New Haven, Connecticut, he heard and played the Eastern European-style folk music.

Many of us – of the predominantly Ashkenazi English-speaking community, that is – would probably cite some lilting bittersweet klezmer air or other, or might go so far as to venture into cantorial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn. Arnold Schoenberg. Kurt Weill. Leonard Bernstein. All enduringly familiar names in music — and all Jewish. While current events involving the State of Israel’s aggression in the ...

DJ style music with beats sounding no different than what non Jews would listen to. All in the name of “farbrengen, leil shishi, simchas choson v’kallah. Now concerts with a similar style to summer ...