Joshua Nelson doesn’t want to hear the Sammy Davis Jr. jokes. He’s heard them all. “I actually used to get offended by them. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re a black Jew, just like Sammy Davis, right?’ ” ...

LENOX -- Joshua Nelson's got soul. A black Jewish gospel singer, he made his first appearance at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival in 2002 and is back again for an encore this summer. To celebrate ...

Karen Hart performs at The Mint in West Los Angeles. Photo via Karen Hart/Facebook. Growing up in Norfolk, Va., in a Conservative Jewish home, singer-songwriter Karen Hart was intrigued by how the ...

It is odd that in a media-saturated time when people seem unable to remember important events that happened last week, much less the decades-long story of how we got into the economic and political ...

NEW YORK — “The purpose of this service is to excite you,” began Rabbi Perry Berkowitz, who along with his sister, Rabbi Leah Berkowitz, runs East Side Synagogue, an unconventional congregation on the ...

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Jewish Gospel singer Joshua Nelson brings his show to the Summit area with a public performance at Congregation Beth Hatikvah in Summit on Jan. 20. Nelson, who grew up in the area as a member of ...

Bob Dylan gives his first concert in Israel in 1987 in Tel Aviv, playing with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. AP Photo/Anat Givon James Mangold’s film “A Complete Unknown,” nominated for eight Oscars ...

The Liberated Wailing Wall started in the early 70's when a group of Jews for Jesus began singing on street corners in and around San Francisco. The Liberated Wailing Wall, a musical group from Jews ...

It was an evening to remember: One hundred and seventeen Jewish high-school students from suburban Los Angeles — some of them wearing yarmulkes — singing, swaying and clapping their hands to gospel ...