Jerry Wicentowski grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in New York City. "Not exactly a bastion of country music," he said with a laugh. But ever since he was a teenager, that wasn't enough to keep ...
Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. This article previously appeared in ...
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, ...
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 ...
Lady Gaga hit "Die With a Smile" articulates what many Israelis feel, writes author Noa Tishby in a guest column ...
Ekko Astral have released a new six-and-a-half minute song and video, “Pomegranate Tree,” written about vocalist/bassist Jael Holzman and drummer Miri Tyler’s experiences as American Jews witnessing ...
It would be nearly impossible to find a music group whose harmonies are tighter than Duvid Swirsky, Dov Rosenblatt and Ami Kozak of Distant Cousins, a music group that fuses pop, folk and rock. Their ...
Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend. Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and ...
Singer-songwriter Mikey Pauker received death threats and hate messages after October 7, all because he supports Israel and the victims of the Hamas terror attack ...