Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend. Since its humble beginnings in 1975, when a Jewish writer and ...

The famous poem that sits at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “The New Colossus”, was written specifically for that massive sculpture and referred to Lady Liberty as the “mother of exiles”. The poem ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

Many of the songs to be performed will stem from the Jewish music revival launched by the late Debbie Friedman. Elana Arian has always associated Jewish music with summer camp. From the time she was a ...

When the much-beloved English broadcaster David Attenborough was celebrated at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the tribute 100 Years On Planet Earth, a spoken word recording was played of Attenborough ...

The basic question is why, on the holiest and most awe-inspiring day of the year, do we sing? The Gemara in Arachin 10b asks: “Master of the Universe! Why do the Jewish people not recite shira before ...