From Shlock Rock to major Israeli theater productions, Beit Shemesh’s cultural center is turning the city into an unexpected ...

Italian musicologist Francesco Lotoro has devoted his life to collecting compositions by the Nazis’ prisoners.

Concerning  Leonard Bernstein, Woody Allen, and Mel Brooks, Saul Bellow and Bob Dylan I cannot, unlike Portnoy, Philip Roth’s ...

Richard Smallwood, a giant of gospel music, died on December 30. For decades, the composer and recording artist infused church hymns with a contemporary sound.

So of course I was eager to see the new movie “Song Sung Blue,” a kind of jukebox tear-jerker loosely based on the story of a ...

Last month, the Tikvah Fund awarded the Herzl Prize to three of the most influential voices in American Jewry: Dan Senor, Bari Weiss, and Ben Shapiro. During the discussion, the panelists grappled ...

The third edition of Kalenjin Music Festivals drove Eldoret city into a frenzy as artists sang their hearts out and ecstatic fans danced. Artists from both music and comedy, as well as humanitarian ...

From day school to charter school, summer trips to youth programs, the author discovered that being Jewish is as much about connection as tradition. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — At first glance, Reut looks like a typical religious Israeli high school. The first day starts with Shacharit, the morning service. The boys, all wearing kippot, sit separately from ...

Singer-songwriter Ari Rabin — stage name Alnev — finds inspiration from musicians Frank Sinatra, Lorde and Panic! At The Disco. But growing up in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community in Coral Springs ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...