People who want to learn more about Yiddish culture can now sign up for several online courses at YIVO. The classes will be taught in English. In the course “Seasons in Yiddish Song,” the ...

But his inner Jewish fire never dimmed ... the chanting of the prayers, the singing of his Nigunim and the unmitigated joy emanating from his beaming face. I once said to my grandfather ...

Levitt and Sher explore Hasidic Jewish ‘nigunim’ (communal melodies) with a spirit of harmonic and improvisational ...

Still, he’s always been consistently brilliant as a musician, whether playing Bach, Jewish nigunim, the music of Coltrane, Lithuanian folksong, or his own music inspired by the Black Sea. A person who ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region ...

"Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now..."Except they're not. In the 1940s, Syria's Jewish community was 40,000 strong. Today just an estimated 3 ...

Some Jewish stories of the last year have been impossible to miss: Israel at war, antisemitism around the world, and a US presidential election featuring Jewish politicians. Others may have ...

Over 800 people joined the Central Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen in Buenos Aires, Argentina uniting the Chabad community with ...

Australia’s Jewish community has reported thousands of antisemitic incidents in the past year, as tensions rise over Israel’s unrelenting offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ October 7 attack.

Some of the biggest rock stars in history happen to be Jewish, either by birth or conversion. Given the rich musical tradition of the Jewish people, this should hardly come as a surprise.