“People seem to want to help” said a friend with family in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina some years ago, “but they aren’t asking what desperate families from the region really need. In ...

Bibi, 6, has always loved to sing, his mother told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (Courtesy of Nina Shapiro) (JTA) — Nina Shapiro didn’t intend for the video of her son’s singing to go viral. The ...

Last year, when he was 6, Bibi Shapiro broke the Jewish internet with his impassioned performance of “Avinu Malkeinu,” the plaintive poem that is recited on Yom Kippur. This year, the Australia ...

JTA — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting on his mother’s lap in Australia being beamed into Yom ...

“A prayer offered without intent (Kavanah), is like a body without a soul.” When the rabbis taught us that lesson, they were encouraging us that when we recite our personal and public prayers, rather ...

INDIO, CA - APRIL 12: Mogwai performs onstage during day 2 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2014 in Indio, California. (Photo by Jason ...

Musician David D'Or honors Peres' request to perform Avinu Malkeinu at funeral.

Barbra Streisand sings Avinu Malkeinu for the first time live, in honour of Israeli president Shimon Peres ...

Perlman performed "Avinu Malkeinu," a well-known High Holy Day prayer begging God, "our father, our king," for the forgiveness of sin. World-renowned Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman performed at the ...

(JTA) — Last year, when he was 6, Bibi Shapiro broke the Jewish internet with his impassioned performance of “Avinu Malkeinu,” the plaintive poem that is recited on Yom Kippur. This year, the ...