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 ...
“Sing, girl!” a member of the St. Brigid Catholic Church, an African American South L.A. based church, called out encouragingly from her seat in the synagogue pews, as a young vocalist, part of Temple ...
After the Seder, sometime around midnightwhen everyone has said the grace after meals, the singing begins. People break out tunes like, “Echad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One)” and “Let My People Go.” For ...
Acclaimed artist Frank Stella grew up in an Italian Catholic immigrant family in Malden, Massachusetts. But a number of his works have Jewish themes — including his colorful illustrations of “Had ...
(JTA) — As the American-Israeli poet Marty Herskovitz thought about the upcoming Passover holiday, the prospect of singing “Dayenu” at the first seder since his country was attacked didn’t sit right ...