I have a confession: I do not like the hora. Circle dancing is bad (sorry), and you will never be able to convince me that the chair lifting is safe. However, as a Jew, there is no escaping the hora — ...

Places you expect to hear “Hava Nagila”: weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, every pop culture depiction of traditional Jews and … gymnastics competitions? In fact, the answer is all of the above. Alexandra ...

Not every Jew has had a bar or bat mitzvah. Not every Jew has attended a Passover Seder. Not every Jew has planted a tree in Israel. But if there is one thing that brings together virtually all Jews — ...

Well-researched and breezily told, “Hava Nagila (The Movie)” is nonetheless a rather conventional documentary with a head-spinning number of talking-head academics and historians exploring the roots ...

Director Roberta Grossman talks about her new film, which traces the evolution of the song that everybody knows — but nobody knows much about... Film Hoists 'Hava Nagila' Up Onto A Chair, In ...

Something like the doc equivalent of a Yiddish-humor bathroom book, vet TV-doc producer Roberta Grossman’s tirelessly glib little movie tracks the cultural trajectory of the eponymous song, “from ...

Something like the doc equivalent of a Yiddish-humor bathroom book, vet TV-doc producer Roberta Grossman’s tirelessly glib little movie tracks the cultural trajectory of the eponymous song “from ...