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 ...

What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...

NEW YORK — Sharon Pulwer was lost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shortly after moving here from Israel to study photography, when she came across the black hats and modest clothes of religious Jews in New ...

A Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) professor won the 2024 Special Interest Group for Jewish Music prize, the Society for Ethnomusicology, an organization which compiles ...

In the wake of rallies that drew tens of thousands and railed against social media usage, some say their communities’ expectations for women are getting more strict. (JTA) — Shaindy Braun and her wig ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...