Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tanowitz and the composer David Lang talk about how their new work is informed by biblical poetry, Israeli folk dance and their Jewish heritage. By ...

The dance workshop was in full swing, but catastrophe was afoot: Nobody understood how to make a four-pointed star. I’m referring to a folk dance pattern that, as one of the less competent dancers in ...

The passionate, poignant and joyous sounds of klezmer, the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, will ring out in Stockbridge on Saturday evening when the Knaydels perform in concert. A fundraiser for ...

Klezmer? What's klezmer? Anyone who doesn't know about this style of popular Jewish dance music that has its roots in Eastern Europe and the gypsy culture won't forget it once they've heard it.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will premiere at the Lyric Opera House on June 5. (Photo credit: Todd Rosenberg) What often comes to mind for the opening of my columns is a quote from a great Rogers ...

Listening to performers like Gracie Abrams and Haim helps a teen musician find a Jewish identity that feels authentic to her. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a ...

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 ...

Most academic symposia don’t offer a steady supply of cold beer and hot pirogi. Fewer still offer the chance to see Michael Alpert, frontman for the progressive klezmer band Brave Old World, dancing ...