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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Before there was Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, or any of the young female singer-songwriters on the charts today, there was Debbie Gibson. Bursting onto the music scene in 1987, she set the Guinness ...

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