This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...

Born in Brooklyn, Richárd Bernard grew up listening to the sounds we now associate with klezmer music. His family enjoyed listening to Yiddish and folk music records, including those of Theodore Bikel ...

It’s been dubbed Kleztronica. Essentially electronic dance music with klezmer elements, the year-old genre is made to a large degree with samplers and synthesizers, though old-school instruments that ...

Recorded by the klezmer virtuoso Dave Tarras and a handful of respected NY jazz players, the record was a groundbreaking mix of traditional Eastern European Jewish dance music & jazz big band sound In ...

"What a perfect time to give thanks for this country's freedoms of expression, assembly and religion," said Rabbi Yosse Yaffee.

“Kleztronica” is a burgeoning Jewish music scene that’s becoming a “movement,” according to its 22-year-old creator, Upper West Side native Kaia Berman-Peters. (New York Jewish Week) — On a recent ...

Jewish folk band to host workshop at music school to illuminate klezmer music Mostly Kosher mixes traditional klezmer and Yiddish music with modern Latin, rock and folk to create emotional ...

In 2010, Leeav Sofer was in university studying clarinet and voice. To help pay for his education, he’d play piano at weddings and private parties. After one wedding, Sofer was talking to an elderly ...

Nothing signals the arrival of a musical genre like the emergence of a festival circuit. Folk festivals proliferated in the 1950s, rock festivals sprang forth in the ’60s and world music festivals ...

Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

On April 27th, the Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon is screening the newest film by Stephen and Timothy Quay, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, accompanied by a live performance of the album ...