The ‘Rose Cohen Experience’ makes use of ambient recordings, an old sewing machine and a Yiddish women’s prayer ...

Ah, Lilith. She's the name that's lingered in whispers for centuries. According to the Jewish Women’s Archive, Lilith’s ...

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...

On January 19, 2025, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a concert — Soul to Soul. It will feature Yiddish folk ...

Singer Debbie Friedman died Sunday of complications of pneumonia, but her progressive, feminist influence on Jewish folk music will live on. According to the Times obituary, the 59-year-old Friedman ...

This month’s column features Jewish folklore and books about Jewish characters. Cinderella fans might enjoy Nina Jaffe’s “The Way Meat Loves Salt” and Erica Silverman’s “Raisel’s Riddle.” Like “The ...

TEN YEARS AGO, Sarah Morse saw a puppeteer in Germany perform the Creation story. Hiding behind a screen and wearing black gloves, "The puppeteer's hands came down like the hands of God, folding ...

Though Jews have famously written many of today’s popular Christmas songs, there’s an additional layer of characteristically Jewish irony in hearing those tunes sung in Yiddish — the widespread ...

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...