A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Gedalia, who said his father had had a cardiac arrest in May and never recovered. Columbia Law Velvel Pasternak, a leading publisher of Jewish music ...

My musically sophisticated Orthodox friends often tell me that they are not interested in Jewish music. It’s not hard to see why. If you take the material produced by the Orthodox pop industry, it’s ...