Holocaust Museum LA will present the debut of 'Klezmer Jam,' a vibrant outdoor concert and celebration of klezmer and Yiddish ...

Many people in their 20s and 30s cheered and sang along with the klezmer stars onstage, kind of like a Yiddish rock concert.

The reason, by the way, that I didn’t really pay attention to the words all those years is because the melody is just so beautiful that I didn’t really care that I didn’t understand the words.

Long before cantors were household names in America, they were hidden treasures in the Hasidic heartlands of Europe. From its ...

• The La Jolla Community Center hosts a “Red, White & Brew Summer Happy Hour” from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at 6811 La ...

With the Jewish people currently within “The Three Weeks” marking the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, what keeps me ...

Victor Friedman, a Superior Court judge in Burlington County for 22 years, has died at age 92. A former attorney in Trenton ...

Arabic is intimate in its distance. It is Semitic, like Hebrew—its twin in syntax and soul. It is embedded in the names of ...

“Famous Yiddish songs and pieces of literature include wandering as a motif for Jewish life.” It’s also a topic the ensemble is uniquely connected to, Pliskin Jacobs said, as each member has ...

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them!“ ...

Obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Dorothy Ann Auerbach  Aug. 12, 1932–July 5, 2025 Dorothy Auerbach, a native and lifelong San Franciscan, died on July 5, […] ...