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.” ...

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

folk and country. NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In his opinion, the Jewish music he had heard growing up in Northern California’s Bay Area ranged ...

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 ...

John McCutcheon, a legend in the folk music world, has addressed some of America’s greatest injustices over the last 50 years ...

Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

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