At the beginning of the new millennium, just out of the University of Maryland, Erez Safar was establishing himself as something of an outlier in the Jewish music scene here. Based in Brooklyn, he was ...

The video for A-WA's "Habib Galbi" ends with the three Israeli sisters—Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim—driving through the desert in a white drop-top jeep, dressed in hot pink djallabahs and headscarves.

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A-Wa, a band of three musically talented sisters from Israel, has been steadily gaining a following in the Middle East and Europe. The group brings its dance music to the Skirball Cultural Center on ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Courtesy of Diwon, the artist formerly known as DJ Handler and otherwise known as the executive director of Modular Moods and Shemspeed.com, comes this fresh mix of pop, hip-hop, ...

A slender, lustrous-eyed young woman, appearing on Manhattan’s Town Hall stage one night last week, completely fascinated an audience which was unable to understand a single word she sang. She was ...

The Voices of Yemen, a group of Yemenite Jews who sing Jewish liturgical songs from Yemen, are tired of the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea and they are tired of missiles being fired at Eilat.

She can be seen as the foundational link in a brilliant chain of powerfully talented Yemenite Jewish women artists that includes the late Israeli chanteuse Shoshana Damari and the sensationally ...

For the last 23 years the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival has brought some of the greatest musicians in the world to Bloomington, Indiana for an unforgettable weekend of musical performance. This ...

The recent airlift evacuation of 19 Yemenite Jews to Israel made international news — now, there are only 50 Jews remaining in the Middle Eastern country. The 2000-year-old Jewish community in Yemen ...