The nigun, a wordless spiritual folk melody, is one of the great achievements of Jewish aesthetic expression. I grew up hearing nigunim at the family table on the Sabbath and holidays with my ...

“They told me to go do my thing,” said Avner Dorman about a 2011 commission by pianist Orli Shaham, violinist Gil Shaham and the 92nd Street Y to write a composition for their Hebrew Melodies project.

The San Diego-based, anarcho-klezmer punk ensemble Di Nigunim played Minneapolis this weekend, a stop in the middle of their tour of the U.S. and Canada. The punk klezmorim are opening for The Barons ...

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There’s a powerful sense of the spiritual and sacred in the songs of “Kapelya,” a new full-length album of Hasidic melodies. There’s also a bit more than a tinge of subversiveness lurking in the LP, ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

Hassidic hipster band Zusha takes nigunim to the next level New York group's first full-length album out in November. Hassidic hipster band Zusha. (photo credit: MARKO DASHEV) By ARIEL HENDELMAN ...

The often wordless songs are traditionally sung exclusively by men, and are central to the synagogue experience — itself a primarily male domain in the Orthodox tradition. As a child growing up in the ...