We want to celebrate Jewish culture and its richness, bring the community together and uplift it.”– Jacqueline Rafii ...

"A Complete Unknown," "A Real Pain," "September 5" and a documentary produced by an Israeli-Palestinian collective received nominations.

Born May 31, 1938, to Jewish Ukrainian parents in New York ... He took violin lessons as a child, later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody Guthrie and ...

A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to this year’s Oscar ...

I came up being into punk rock and folk music, and [Hebrew school] was very preppy and sports-oriented, so I always felt that kind of estrangement from the Jewish community as I knew it.” ...

You don’t need to be a media junkie to know these are challenging times for Israel in the global arena, as if we didn’t have enough ongoing existential threats right here at home. There are ...

A champion of Middle East peace whose career was tarnished by a morals charge involving a minor.--The post Peter Yarrow, ...

The singer and songwriter who helped popularize folk music in the 1960s died of bladder cancer at his home in New York.

Peter Yarrow, a folk legend who sang in Peter, Paul and Mary, and later received a presidential pardon over a child sex abuse conviction, has died.

Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done." ...

Choir wasn’t a part of his upbringing in North Carolina, but he always shared a love for music, he said. Chessin played klezmer (Eastern European, Jewish folk music) with his dad’s band.