Not much Passover music arrived in this year’s mail so it’s difficult to speculate on the ebb and flow of certain kinds of Jewish music recordings, but it does seem that fewer holiday-specific records ...

Not only is it perfect for Pesach, but also it is simply top-notch choral music, written with the composer’s characteristic extrovert flair. One of its special qualities is that most of the dramatic ...

Two weeks ago at a concert by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Ernst Toch’s “Cantata of the Bitter Herbs” was performed for the first time in about 30 years. A forgotten work by a mostly forgotten ...

Cantor Josh Breitzer was taught to think of prayer music like a mountain. So when he and Cantor Rollin Simmons developed their plans for the year’s final Passover service at Congregation Emanu El, ...

Build your soundtrack for the Jewish holiday that kicks off on Saturday night (April 12). By Gil Kaufman Passover is one of the most musical of Jewish holidays. The annual springtime celebration of ...

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Samantha and Samara, and Rachel and Reut, and some of the other girls in the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy high school choir swear to me that the Passover music they will be ...

As Passover and Easter approach, we’re well warned of enduring some of our hardest coronavirus days. These are serious holidays that alert us to world-altering shifts. For Jews it was the throwing off ...

Israeli feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad’s Hebrew-language drama, “Working Woman,” opens at Laemmle Theatres. The fictional drama is about Oma, a wife and mother, who, while her husband struggles to ...

“I snuck a shank bone into Coachella,” Nate Auerbach said Friday, standing outside the VIP Rose Garden at Coachella, amid sparkle-dress clad hordes of partiers. “Most people sneak… other things.” ...

The holidays of Easter and Passover intersect this weekend, and there are some egg hunts and a talk focusing largely on the more festive part of the Christian holiday, while a film festival offers ...