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A New Lipa Schmeltzer Ban

Hasidic superstar singer Lipa Schmeltzer is supposed to sing for a Breslov group in Uman, but leading Breslov rabbis banned him. Schmeltzer was previously banned in the spring of 2008 by a large group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis.

Clarence Clemons – A Memorial

Video: Chabad Rapper DeScribe Talks To The NY Daily News

The hasid turned 14-year-old street kid turned hasid again explains his music and his outlook.

Carlebach Gives New Life To American Jewish Music

In the niche market of American Jewish music, Neshama Carlebach has already reached superstar status. She has sold about a million CDs and has toured constantly for nearly 20 years, playing everything from 5,000-seat concerts for Jewish executives to weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Chabad Jazz Musician Daniel Zamir Profiled

Saxophonist Daniel Zamir, once a far leftist, now takes stage as a haredi Jew, speaks fluent Yiddish and plays with top musicians at secular clubs. With no intention of giving up his love of music, he sees it as his life's mission: 'God wants me to do this'

'Kosher' Video Sharing Website Allows Viewers To Rock, Kosher Style

“It’s just like YouTube, except with one difference: there isn’t any lasciviousness,” explained Sharon Bokubaza, a student from the Breslov Shuvu Banim Yeshiva who is also the site director. “Glatube is geared for newly-observant Jews who want to hear music but are not interested in the lasciviousness that exists on the internet.”

Tel Aviv Mayor Under Fire For Allowing City's First Gender-Segregated Concert

"The Mann Auditorium is one of the most important city-owned civic symbols of Tel Aviv. I don't think any of the city founders thought that someday someone would say, 'Men sit here and women sit there.'"

And The Award For The Sickest, Worst, Most Exploitative Haredi Music Video Of All Time Goes To…

Shmuel Borger, whose video for the Shloimy Daskal song "Still Your Child" will go down in infamy. Don't watch it without a vomit bag.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Moshe Yess

The singer-songwriter who was once a backup musician for Crosby, Stills and Nash, and who became a Chabad messianist who claimed to have seen the late rebbe in the flesh after he died, and frequented late-night radio talk shows like Coast-to-Coast AM to tell the world about the dead Rebbe's 'supernatural powers,' has passed away.

The Hazan Who Became Disturbed

David Draiman has taken a winding path from promising but rebellious student of Judaism to front man for one of the music world’s most popular heavy metal bands.

Israeli Music Group The Idan Raichel Project Profiled By The BBC

"I wish Palestinian and Lebanese kids would learn about Hebrew culture, and that Israeli youngsters would learn about Palestinian art and Lebanese folklore. Generation after generation in the Middle East is being raised to believe that on the other side of the border, there is an enemy. The first level of creating peace - a real peace, not just signing contracts - is about people and the culture of the people."

Video: Matisyahu Learns To Box From Dmitriy Salita

Matisyahu gets a boxing lesson from the Chabad boxer, Dmitriy Salita.

Band Aid For Rubashkin

When 51-year-old Rubashkin was jailed this summer for a string of financial crimes, his 27-year sentence shocked many in the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox world.

Rubashkin Music Video Has Swanky Premiere In Crown Heights

Mordechai Ben David delayed a visit to the young infant Laizer Galperin in Cincinnati who suffered critical wounds some time ago, in order to be at the event today.

Jewish Music Superstars Release Unity Music Video In Honor Of Sholom Rubashkin

The "We Are The World" of the Jewish people was not done to support terror victims or to raise money to provide relief for poor people or to aid famine victims or flood victims. It was made to honor a convicted felon.

Great Band

Roma Di Luna's sound will blow you away.

Rabbi Who Endorsed Book Permitting Murder Of Arab Babies Says "Nigger" Music Not Kosher

"Music can get contaminated. Experts will investigate and see if the tune is 'kosher,' if it expresses an aspiration to goodness, or if it is taken from the jungle and stimulates negative emotions. With pop, you can see clearly that it's negative. Something that belongs to the rhythms of kushim [niggers] isn't part of our world."

He Said Kaddish For Elvis Presley

A close friend of Presley from they were 12 years old until Elvis died, Klein grew up in observant home, the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitism in Europe. "My mother and father were both Orthodox Jews."

Singing Rabbi Gets Prison Time For Grand Larceny

A singer and purported rabbi who claimed to have the stardom of Michael Jackson in Israel was sentenced to one to three years prison on Tuesday for stealing $36,000 from a Washington Heights woman.

Matisyahu Joins PETA Campaign To Urge Israeli Fur Ban

Jewish reggae star Matisyahu has sent an urgent letter on PETA's behalf to Israeli government leaders urging them to support a bill currently in the Knesset that would ban the fur trade in Israel. If the bill passes, Israel will be the first country to prohibit the production, sale, and importation of all fur products (with the exception of shtreimels, traditional fur hats worn by some Hasidim).

Video: What The Heck Is "Hava Nagilah"?

New film asks, what the heck does one of the most popular pop songs of all time mean? Where did it come from? And why do so many non-Jews sing it?

Mindblowing Music

Two amazing songs from a great singer and band.

Musical On Life Of Shlomo Carlebach Opens

Soul Doctor, a new musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, makes its regional premiere in New Orleans at Muriel's Cabaret Stage at Le Petit Theatre May 7-12 and is headed for Broadway in 2011.

Breslov Influenced Haredi Music School Opens

School aimed at religious musicians includes 'creative beit midrash' as part of studies. Rabbi Nachman's rock opera is underway.

Building A Haredi Carnegie Hall

After a protracted struggle with the Jerusalem Municipality, the haredi conservatory was recently awarded a corner plot on a slope of the Har Nof border of the Jerusalem Forest facing Yad Vashem.

Haredim Launch Music Hechsher

Percussion should be used sparingly, guitar and saxophone should not be used, and all forms of modern music are forbidden.

Mormon US Senator Writes Hanukkah Song

“I know a lot of Jewish people that don’t know what Hanukkah means.” Jews should “take a look at it and realize the miracle that’s being commemorated here. It’s more than a miracle; it’s the solidification of the Jewish people.”

Department of Jewish Media Overstatement

Claiming credit where credit isn't due.

Go You Forth To New Orleans

Big benefit concert for 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina features Neshama Carlebach, Ellis Marsalis, and other NOLA musicians.

Jerusalem Hazzanut Festival To Feature Ethiopian Liturgical Music

"We will have among our performers - and naturally as a result among our audience, too - haredim, religious, secular and traditional. It is basically an opportunity to bring the fringes together."

Sefat Chief Rabbi Asks Madonna To Perform In Modest Clothes

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu asks Madonna to "act in accordance with Kabbalah's values."

Madonna Forbidden To Perform In Israel, Horn Blowing Rabbi Says

Sefardic Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri says Madonna's shows violate Jewish law.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet

Ellie Greenwich, one of the best pop songwriters and producers of all time, dead at 68.

Bruce Springsteen and the Syrian Jews of Deal, NJ

Did Bruce really write about the Syrians in an early song? A member of the original E Street Band gives us the answer.

Bob Dylan Makes Christmas Album

This is "completely consistent with his longstanding tradition of doing the unexpected."

Bruce Springsteen and the Syrian Jewish Community of Deal, NJ

Syrian Jews in Deal mentioned in an early Springsteen song?

Playing For Change

What happens when a song is made by musicians from all over the world, each playing his or her part without knowing or meeting the others? Really great music.

Bruce Springsteen, Rahm Emmanuel, and Hava Negilah

A brief but memorable moment in Rock history…

"I Need A Jew": Family Guy Song Beats Disney In Court

Judge rules song, based on Disney's "When You Wish Upon a Star" humorous, use proper.

Idan Raichel Project Live NYC

Israel's most innovative world beat musicians come to NYC.

BREAKING! Rabbi Avrohom Schorr Rips Mic From Lipa Schmeltzer's Hands At Wedding

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Is This The Haredi Future?

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Jewish Music Star Dedicates Song To Rubashkin On Release From Jail

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Peter Himmelman Concert Live Online

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Hanukkah

Here is a quick musical quiz for Hanukkah. Why does the following Chaim Dovid song have anything to do with Hanukkah?

MATISYAHU: Chabad Has Too Many Alcoholics, Views Itself As The Only Pure Form Of Judaism

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A Song For Postville

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A Song For Wall Street

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Haredi Rules For Playing 'Kosher' Music

The haredi modesty squad leader who led the successful campaign to ban…

Racism Haredi Style: The Bigoted, Ignorant, Race-Baiting, KKK "Theology" Behind The Newest Music Ban – Haredi Modesty Squads Act As Bans' Enforcers

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"We might be able to adopt Bach or Beethoven, music with class, but not goyishe African music and beats.