You’d be surprised how many YouTube followers thirst for oud music and ancient Hebrew texts translated into English. Thousands, maybe even millions, according to Talya G. A Solan, a musician who ...

What really lasts in this world? What dies, what can be revived? Are humans basically the same now as in ancient times? I was left pondering these questions after listening to singer and composer Stef ...

This recording is part 2 of 4 of a programme titled Musical Legacy of Ancient Israel. This part contains Psalms, Bible cantillation, prayers, hymns, and other cantoral music.

In Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood, a retired Orthodox rabbi and a Mexican immigrant are collaborating on a rap video. There will be no scantily clad women. The pair, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen and Alex ...

This week, we read the final chapters of Bamidbar, the double Torah portion Mattot-Masei. It’s the end of a book that has held our wandering, our rebellion, our fears, our growth. But it doesn’t end ...

An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign) has been deciphered, showing that it is a Hebrew inscription. The discovery makes this the earliest known Hebrew ...

Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong). Rabbi Leder was marveling at the ...