After her 2008 documentary "Blessed Is the Match," Roberta Grossman covers an even broader swath of 20th-century Jewish history in "Hava Nagila (The Movie)," albeit far more lightheartedly. After her ...

Born in Ukraine, raised in Palestine, the toast of the Catskills and the inevitable guest star at countless Jewish celebrations the world over, the song “Hava Nagila” has pulled many a goy (and I’d ...

In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, we thought it might be fun to post three Yiddish versions of well-known Israeli songs that became popular among Holocaust survivors and other ...

In the battle for the No. 1 Christmas hit on the United Kingdom’s charts this season, rising British pop star Lauren Rose is being given an outside chance at outdoing challengers not with renditions ...

We all know the song. We've all seen the dance it inspires - at weddings and bar mitzvahs, either in person or in movie and television. But just what is "Hava Nagila," where did it come from and what ...

I grew up on "Hava Nagila," and I'll admit it's not the catchiest of tunes. The ingenuous Hebrew lyrics ("Come! Let us rejoice and be happy!") don't wear well in our age of knowing irony and ennui.

It's not a very complicated song, or even a very subtle one. Its pop-culture connotations are more than a little kitschy. Ask a serious musician about it, and watch the ensuing slight look of distaste ...

Whether you love it or you hate it, you know it: "Hava Nagila." Maybe you grew up listening to Harry Belafonte's rendition, or found yourself in a chair being hoisted into the air by a singing crowd ...

Played by lead guitarist Brian May, the little folk tune that Jews dance to in circles at weddings sounded epic. The greatest Jewish moment of the Queen+Adam Lambert concert came from the most ...

There’s an air of forced excitement about putting “The Movie” in a title, like a tipsy party guest dragging someone on the dance floor against his will. And what do you know? Getting out on the floor ...

Roberta Grossman's documentary details the history of the bar mitzvah mainstay that has been covered by the likes of Elvis, Glen Campbell and Bruce Springsteen. By THR Staff Hava Nagila Film Still - H ...