Familiar Sound: Anat Cohen Picked As Top Clarinetist
JTA For the fifth straight year, Tel Aviv native Anat Cohen received the clarinetist of the year award from the Jazz Journalists Association.The awards were presented here on Saturday.Cohen’s latest...
View ArticleJDub Closing For Financial Reasons
Tamar Snyder Staff Writer After nearly nine years of operation and 35 album releases, JDub has announced that it will close up shop for financial reasons.The not-for-profit record label that is best...
View ArticleCommentary Kicks A Dead Horse: A Eulogy for JDub Records
For the young, artistic, mostly Brooklyn-based set, JDub Records was a boon. Founded in 2001, it announced this week that it was shutting its doors because of money problems. It's a real loss to the...
View ArticleiTunes Labels Jewish Music As 'Christian & Gospel'
(JTA) – Apple’s iTunes has put some of the most well-known Jewish and chasidic singers in the online music store “Christian & Gospel" section.The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that musicians such...
View ArticleShaking Up Jewish Music With Online Radio
Julie Wiener Associate Editor Marking its first birthday this month, Jewish Rock Radio has a lot to celebrate. The 24-7 online radio station — which plays big names like Matisyahu, Israeli groups like...
View ArticleA Concert Of Reconciliation
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Catholic group honors Jews in free Lincoln Center event.Other than the Zionist revival of a Jewish state, the most remarkable — once inconceivable — development for Jews...
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Alicia Jo Rabins, Art-rocking the women of the Bible.
Tue, 05/22/2012Alicia Jo Rabins, 34Twitter: @ohaliciajo, @girlsintroublewww.girlsintroublemusic.comGrowing up, Alicia Jo Rabins never gave much thought to Jewish tradition. She was raised secular, in a...
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Michael Greenberg, A vocalist working ‘miracles.’
Hannah Dreyfus Tue, 05/22/2012Michael Greenberg, 23Twitter: @MikeJGreenbergwww.MakeSomeMiracles.comread more
View ArticleAuschwitz' Musical Geography
Auschwitz has a musical as well as physical geography, contends a Stanford University doctoral candidate in German studies. It helped the guards maintain control, and helped prisoners resist.Using...
View ArticleThe 2000-Year-Old Hope
Not only is Hatikvah the national anthem of Israel, but Jews around the world have sung it for 135 years.read more
View ArticleJewish Soul Music For Tots
Julie Wiener Associate Editor For many Park Slope tots, Saturday morning means jamming with Debbie Brukman at Temple Beth Elohim. Brukman, a music teacher with a local coffeehouse following, regularly...
View ArticleCommentary Kicks A Dead Horse: A Eulogy for JDub Records
For the young, artistic, mostly Brooklyn-based set, JDub Records was a boon. Founded in 2001, it announced this week that it was shutting its doors because of money problems. It's a real loss to the...
View ArticleGuide To The Arts
Jewish Week Staff Your weekly guide to what's hot in New York area arts.The Buzz: What's Hot in the Arts JEWS AND THE BLACKLISTread more
View ArticleA Showcase Of Arts And Texts
How does an Orthodox center for rich and rigorous Jewish learning reach out to self-styled artists who are often in the margins of communal life?read more
View ArticleBefore Wagner Was Taboo
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor When Jews were inspired by the composer associated with Hitler. The orchestral rolling thunder of Hitler’s favorite composer Richard Wagner is almost as taboo in Israel...
View ArticleA New New Month Tradition, At Drisha
For the new month of Elul, songwriter Elie Lichtschein introduces his “mysti-folk” version of Hallel to New York. Lichtschein has composed new melodies for the psalms that are traditionally chanted on...
View ArticleCulture Foundation's New Commission: A Musical Sarajevo Hagaddah
Gabriela Geselowitz Jewish Week Correspondent The famous illuminated manuscript will become a multimedia musical presentation. The Sarajevo Haggadah, the famous illuminated manuscript, is the...
View ArticleLab/Shul’s Eclectic Musical Lineup
How does one get in the right frame of mind for the High Holy Days? For Shira Kline, bandleader and musical director for Lab/Shul’s High Holy Day service, the answer is obvious: music. “Rosh Hashanah...
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