(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 ...

(RNS) — Jessica Roda's new book explores how women in Haredi communities are embracing and creating digital arts tailored to the gender-segregated world of women. (RNS) — The world of Haredi Jews is ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

“It’s beautiful to be in the room singing along to songs about what it means to be a Jew,” one attendee said. (New York Jewish Week) — The 15,000 people who gathered in Madison Square Garden for ...

On a recent evening, a group of Jewish women gathered at Chabad of Squirrel Hill to rehearse for an upcoming performance. It didn’t take the women long to learn the finale they will perform at “The ...

In times of peril, people turn to their family, friends and community for help. But in his new song, “Speed Dial,” American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish rapper Nissim Black urges people to first go to God ...

After an Indian buffet, warm chai and a vent about the difficulty of finding space for jamming sessions, 18 Jewish and Muslim musicians in Kensington opened up their instrument cases. The musicians ...

Musicologist Uri Schreter shows how postwar trends played out on the dance floor. Of course we also wanted to dance to rock ‘n’ roll and needed musicians who could handle Sinatra for our parents’ ...

Last week, residents of Toms River, New Jersey, which houses a growing Orthodox Jewish community one hour south of New York City, received a campaign mailer from Mayor Mo Hill that some are describing ...