About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

How dare she. How dare a mother deny her children playdates, television and even bathroom breaks until they had mastered their musical instruments. What kind of mom-ster does this? These were the ...

Pastor Todd Westphal of the El Shaddai Congregation in Frederick has been singing most of his life. He sang in school growing up, with his congregation's praise teams, and over the last few years, on ...

We’ve all heard of kosher food prepared according to Jewish law. But Jewish, New Jersey-based musician Joshua Nelson adds a little soul food to the kosher menu. And his homemade kosher gospel is ...

They come from West Windsor and Plainsboro, New Brunswick and Freehold, Matawan and Manalapan. Every Sunday, they travel from around central New Jersey to join their voices in song, creating a ...

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ORLANDO — The bell tolled. It tolled and tolled and tolled. The only other sounds in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church of Orlando on Tuesday night were muffled tears as photos of the ...

Several music directors of Emden were fined by the authorities for playing in public the anti-Semitic Borkum hymn. The authorities regarded the performance of the hymn as dangerous to the peace of the ...