In choosing to host a Kanye West concert, SoFi Stadium has chosen to “spit in the face of every Jewish person in Los Angeles, ...
Cantor Elena Zarkh immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1979, settled in Los Angeles, earned acceptance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and got ordained.
Just as Peter Himmelman's career was beginning, he risked everything to honor something far older than the music business.
In the summer of 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — ...
From Latin jazz to children’s music to hard-hitting R&B, WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer shares albums coming out this spring that prove Greater Boston artists are full of resourcefulness and ...
Donald Trump fans are coming to the defense of the President after country singer Maren Morris offered a blistering takedown ...
Michael Goldsmith sees clear similarities between writing songs and writing sermons. Both, he says, “work within a framework” ...
After fleeing Iran, many Bay Area Jews are overwhelmed by the prospect of their country liberated from its oppressive theocratic government.
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.
As the sun set in the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Monday, air raid sirens warning of incoming Iranian missiles sent residents hurrying to shelters just as the Jewish holiday of Purim was ...
The mayor of France's second-biggest city, Marseille, has said that Kanye West is "not welcome" after the music star known for his antisemitic rants announced a concert in June.
Inside, the usual Purim noise gave way to the familiar silence of waiting. When the all-clear finally came, people did what they had learned to do over the past days. They stepped back out and ...