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Jewish music

Once upon a time at Congregation Beth Sholom. (Screenshot/bethsholomsf.org)
Posted inFirst Person

A synagogue choir is not to be applauded … or is it?

Stephen Saxon by Stephen Saxon February 8, 2022February 15, 2022
Frank London's “Ghetto Songs” will drop on April 19, coinciding with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.  (Photo/P. Romo)
Posted inMusic

All the world is a ghetto in Frank London’s ambitious new solo album

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert April 14, 2021
Shir Yaakov Feit sings the first of 70 melodies he wrote for the Book of Psalms at the beginning of the pandemic. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inCulture

Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year’s worth of spiritual ‘healing songs’

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 12, 2021April 12, 2021
Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Photo/Joan Shelley)
Posted inEditorial

Folk guitarist Nathan Salsburg makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records

Daniel Bromfield by Daniel Bromfield and JTA March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Singer and educator Noa Levy
Posted inCulture

Explore Israel’s history through its music in upcoming web series

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 18, 2020
(Photo/JTA-Westend61-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Spotify’s Jewish music makes me feel like a kid again

Rabbi Yael Buechler by Rabbi Yael Buechler and JTA August 12, 2019
A man and a woman standing under a tree, both holding guitars
Posted inMusic

‘Camping’ and Jewish indie folk at Silicon Valley Jewish Music Festival

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 28, 2019
From the cover of "Ayn Od," a new album by Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks and Briah
Posted inMusic

New music from Berkeley makes Jewish worship ‘transformative’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 26, 2018September 26, 2018
Book of J duo Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg
Posted inMusic

Where delta blues, queer liturgy and Yiddish protest songs meet

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 21, 2018December 3, 2025
The all-woman klezmer band Isle of Klezbos, coming this fall to the Sonoma State University Jewish Music Series (Photo/Angela Jimenez)
Posted inMusic

Again, Sonoma State asks: What is Jewish music?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018

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