Each holiday season in the U.S., Christmas cheer fills shopping centers and radio airwaves like an avalanche of fake snow. Growing up Jewish in this environment, one of my few respites from the ...

I hate Jewish music. I hate choral music. They completely deserve each other, and yet the twain never doth meet. Jewish Music: You can only understand the importance of Judaism to 20th century music ...

When Hanukkah begins at sundown Tuesday, the dreidel can spin to the beat of a different drummer with the “Celebrate Hip Hop” CD. One of the newest of the “Celebrate” CDs that include “Hanukkah,” ...

Those familiar with Yuzo Nieto’s other projects won’t be expecting his music with Yuzo Nieto and the Hand That Rocks the Dreidel (due this Friday, August 8 at Old Curtis Street). It’s definitely not ...

JTA — Within the Jewish musical canon are several songs that seem to have always existed — tunes we all know and pass down from one generation to the next. One example is the Hanukkah favorite “I Have ...

Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman pitched in vocals on a standout track from "A Philly Special Christmas Special," the second holiday album from linemen Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata ...

It’s impossible for me to be objective about choral music because I have so many miserable associations with it. From the earliest age, I wanted to be a conductor, but for a variety of reasons, I ...