A friend alerted me to this the other day: It’s an Israeli group called Kleibedik (it's a pun on Klezmer and leybedik [lively]...

Couple interesting things popped up in the feed this weekend: A new blog by an African-American Jewish man living in Crown Heights calle...

Exciting news, klez fans. The New York Klezmer Series  returns to the  Stephen Wise Free Synagogue next Tuesday. It's  curated by the on...

(This is a guest post by Asya Fruman, in honor of the memory of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, z"l . Asya is  a young translator from Kha...

Thursday night we lost a treasure of the Yiddish world, poet, artist, songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman . She was 93. Beyle survived...

You've probably all heard by now that legendary poet/musician/downtown icon Lou Reed has passed away.  Others will be praising and rem...

Can Minimal Jewish Education Be Made Viable?  by Leon A. Jick (from The Education of American Jewish Teachers , a volume of essays on th...

Welcome to another installment of my series on out of print Jewish records. I'm working my way through a gorgeous stack of records gifte...

This was supposed to be a post about serious Yiddish music . The idea was to continue my From the Back Wall series on out of print Jewish...

Rachel Gross has an excellent piece on the Pew survey t oday in Religion and Politics. She makes the point, as others have, that the surv...