This J.-made Hanukkah playlist brings together some local Jewish artists with songs to set the mood for the holiday season.

After stage managing and performing in countless Christmas productions, local creative Rebecca Weinstein pitched an idea to ...

There are songs that make us want to dance — and then there are songs that touch the heart and make us think. Yacov Young’s ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis H. Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

Sixty two years ago, Allan Sherman was all the rage. Sherman, the singer and comedian who specialized in wry song parodies ...

Exemplifying the universal power of pop music on screen is a key scene in the FX limited series “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” As Jesse Eisenberg’s protagonist Toby Fleishman, a divorced father mired in ...

This piece originally appeared on Kveller. It’s hard to believe, but Saturday marks 10 years since the passing of Jewish musical icon Debbie Friedman, who died of pneumonia on Jan. 9, 2011, at age 59.

Flora Polnauer, 28, tilts back her head, half closes her eyes and hums a few bars of a song by her hip-hop/funk/reggae band HaGesher. The song is "Lecha Dodi," the Shabbat evening prayer—sounded over ...

Kate Bush is enjoying an out-of-nowhere, late-career moment. At 63, the English art-rock singer-songwriter with the distinctive soprano and a four-octave range finds herself with her greatest hit, ...

Though there are dozens of songs about dreaming of a white Christmas, rocking around the Christmas tree and having a merry little Christmas, there’s really only one Hanukkah song. Specifically, Adam ...

In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, a 10-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender sang a song called "My Mother's Grave" to a Soviet ethnomusicologist in Bratslav, Ukraine.

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...