“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, ...

Douglass told the audience at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, that for a free Black like himself, being expected to celebrate American independence was akin to the Judean ...

Today, The Spirit of Things will treat you to the Psalms in four traditions: the Anglican, the Greek Orthodox, the Roman Catholic and the Jewish. The idea to bring together four choirs for the one ...

John Cleese posts show disdain for Israel ahead of show ...

Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced last night, was one of the most explicitly Jewish popular songwriters since the ancient King David, whose Psalms he expertly imitated over a five-decade career ...

I have been studying the persecution of my people, Jewish people, for over 35 years. That detailed studies included the Soviet systematic state antisemitism and far- and wide-reached persecutions of ...

The Hebrew Psalms have inspired composers for thousands of years. Now, New York's Lincoln Center is presenting The Psalms Experience, a festival of choral settings of all 150 Psalms by 150 different ...

AN EVENING of music will be presented by the Renaissance Music Group at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The event entitled Psalms & European Culture will be hosted by the choir at the Lady Chapel of the ...

The Psalms occupy a paramount place in the world’s liturgy. What is it about their spiritual scope and emotional breadth that gives them such power? What can we learn from their language and poetry, ...

Penn State University Press recently announced the publication of Hebrew Psalms and the Utrecht Psalter: Veiled Origins, by Professor Pamela Berger: "In a major departure from previous scholarship, ...

Tweetable Logline: Cultures and musical styles collide in this “making of the album” documentary. Jewish Appalachians + Jewish Ugandans = music history. Elevator Pitch: Jewish Appalachians? You don’t ...