Trumpeter and bandleader Frank London (co-founder of The Klezmatics) talks to the BJV about his new album, "Ghetto Songs," an exploration of music created in, and inspired by, life within ghetto walls
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, and choirmaster Polina Shepherd talks about "singing in Yiddish" with our correspondent Tela Zasloff, sharing how she absorbed the music growing up in the Former Soviet Union and how she now shares it on her weekly Zoom program, “Sing with Me: Russian &…
As the festival of Shavuot approaches, Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch of Temple Anshe Amunim reflects on the promise of return and renewal suggested by the traditional practices of counting the omer and shmita, the cycle of resting the land every seven years.
Fascinated by the lands from which her grandparents emigrated, Williams College professor emerita and Gastronomica editor Darra Goldstein pursued “the elemental flavors underlying traditional Russian cuisine." Our Traveling With Jewish Taste correspondent Carol Goodman Kaufman writes…
Federation's executive director shares her family's COVID-19 experience and reflects on how disorienting it felt for her to be on the receiving end of care, even during a time of true need
