Can Jewish sacred music sung in a Roman Catholic basilica help relations between Christians and Jews? For the Reform movement’s American Conference of Cantors, the answer is a resounding yes.

Violinist Itzhak Perlman will share the stage with Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot in the first Jewish event at the new Barclays Center, Brooklyn’s largest music venue. NEW YORK (JTA ...

Growing up in Mt. Airy, Arlyne Unger’s mother, Kitty, always loved hearing her daughter sing, especially at family functions.“ They’d have those big family seders and would make me sing Ma Nishtana ...

A jazz-trained cantor at a local synagogue likes to go up on the building's roof and think. One day, it occurred to him to ...

Melbourne-born Toby Glaser has been appointed as cantor at Sydney’s North Shore Temple Emanuel. Cantor Glaser completed his cantorial studies and ordination at Hebrew Union College and the Debbie ...

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Three familiar songs "Chag Purim (Purim Holiday)," "Shoshanas Yaakov (The Rose of Jacob)," and Abraham Goldfaden's "Heint Iz ...

“I decided I don’t just want to be a cantor but a rabbi as well ... TIME magazine as one of the ‘10 rising stars of New Jewish Music’. His music blends Jewish rock, reggae, folk and ...

As I got older, and more involved in the Jewish community, I learned about Peter, Paul and Mary’s activism, their support of civil rights and of the Soviet Jewry movement. I learned new songs ...