“They are leading the public astray and are causing a great negative influence on the young generation,” says Rabbi Efraim Luft, head of an ultra-orthodox organisation in Israel called the Committee for Jewish Music.Supported by leading Haredi rabbis, Rabbi Luft has drawn up a black-list of musicians and bands - music that he says that […]
Photo:Controversial vocalist Lipa Schmeltzer canceled a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden following a meeting with Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
Musicians who use rock, rap, reggae and trance influences will not receive rabbinic approval for their CDs, nor will they be allowed to play in wedding halls under haredi kosher food supervision, according to a […]
Presenting Matisyahu the model
“The Hasidic world is rocked. Matisyahu, a singer who shattered all boundaries in Jewish music and became a legend in the US and the world, has launched a modeling career as well. He has recently become Kenneth Cole’s newest icon, representing the company’s take on diversity in America.” Ynet
Idan of Arabia Ynet
“Al-Jazeera television network dedicates one hour of its broadcasting to interview with Israeli singer Idan Raichel”
“Israeli musician Idan Raichel was recently interviewed on Al-Jazeera, a news network that Israel has boycotted for what it called incitement to terror. The interview took place on a program the Qatari-based network’s English language channel devoted […]
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TORRINGTON - The 12th Annual Klezmer on the Hills featured Grammy nominee Andy Statman and his band playing a rousing blend of music. Statman, a mandolin and clarinet player, thinks of his works as “a spontaneous American-roots form of very personal, prayerful Hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz,” he says on […]
Shmoolik- Les Enfants d’Israël (Children of Israel)
TEL AVIV – Two musical talents with intertwining twists of fate… Ken Burgess, a noted composer, producer and singer, almost formed a duo with John Lennon after the Beatles broke up in 1970. Two decades later, Burgess converted to Orthodox Judaism and later went on to record several Jewish music records….Now his wife, Navah Baruchin, […]
Shturem.net has the pleasure of posting three songs from this new disk thanks to the courtesy of Avraham Fried.
Jewish New Jersey band“Mishna Project” sets Mishna texts to music as an innovative way to helps students memorize them
The Mishna meets bass guitar: A Jewish-American band has recently set the various Mishna texts to music as an innovative method to help students learn the chapter of the Mishna by heart. Jewish educators might take a […]
Today’s Hamodia has five opinion pieces on the Lipa ban controversy.
The editors write:
In the aftermath of the events surrounding the “Big Event” concert ban, Hamodia was deluged by reactions from readers that demonstrated the wide range of their views and the passion they had towards their views. The volume of this response was unusally high […]
