Jewish musicians

Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles, January 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

July 19, 2021, 8:25 am

Ending 18-month hiatus, Bob Dylan returns to the (online) stage

After pandemic concluded his so-called Neverending Tour, fans pay $25 to watch a video of the 80-year-old singer-songwriter playing mostly earlier hits to an audience of actors

By David Bauder

Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are Nefesh Mountain. (Lawrence Rickford/via JTA)

June 10, 2021, 9:59 am

Anne Frank’s famous optimism gets a bluegrass twang

New Jersey duo Nefesh Mountain’s new song ‘Piece Of The Sun (For Anne Frank)’ debuts just ahead of what would have been the Holocaust diarist’s 92nd birthday on June 12

By Gabe Friedman

Alix Dobkin poses in a t-shirt that reads 'The Future'is Female" in Preston Hollow, NY in 1975. Dobkin, the lesbian singer and feminist activist, died in her home from a brain aneurysm and stroke. She was 80. (Liza Cowen via AP)

May 22, 2021, 7:33 pm

Singer and pioneering lesbian activist Alix Dobkin dies at 80

The Jewish musician often played Yiddish songs during performances for all-women audiences

By THALIA BEATY

Assucena Assucena is a Jewish trans musician who says the country's Jewish community is not as homogeneous as most Brazilians might think. (Photo courtesy of Assucena Assucena; background via Getty Images/ via Alma and JTA)

May 18, 2021, 3:03 am

Brazilian musician shines a light on the intersection of sexuality and Judaism

Trans singer Assucena Assucena is proud to showcase the country’s Jewish diversity, breaking stereotypes held by many Brazilians – including some inside the local community itself

By CALEB A. GUEDES-REED

Violinist Lili Haydn wrote the single 'More Love' as a sign of her appreciation for life. Her album of the same name drops March 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

March 29, 2021, 6:01 am

Life is a miracle: Eclectic LA musician belts thankful song after COVID struggle

Classically-trained violinist Lili Haydn won a Grammy last year with band Opium Moon; her new album ‘More Love,’ named for its title song, drops March 26

By Dave Gordon

Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Joan Shelley/ via JTA)

March 22, 2021, 2:38 am

Folk guitarist makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records

According to Nathan Salsburg, the early American record industry marketed aggressively to European immigrants, and he draws from a wellspring of klezmer tunes for his new project

By Daniel Bromfield

From left: Richie Faulkner from Judas Priest, Scott Keller, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Laughlin Keller at Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, November 10, 2016. (Courtesy Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp)

February 23, 2021, 4:23 am

Cantor’s son makes rocker dreams come true at Rock N’ Roll Fantasy Camp

87 feel-good minutes are jammed into documentary ‘Rock Camp: The Movie’ as promoter David Fishof invites rock gods to perform alongside mere mortals – often with touching results

By Lisa Klug

Singer Ari Gold performs at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, June 11, 2009. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

February 16, 2021, 11:11 pm

Ari Gold, yeshiva student turned pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies at 47

Singer, who left Orthodox Jewish roots but stayed connected to his Jewish identity, dies of leukemia after seven-year battle

By Gabe Friedman

Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)

February 11, 2021, 3:37 am

Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical

Celebrated UK actress Maureen Lipman to sing ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ title song in a never-seen show about the female Israeli PM, for Jewish Music Institute’s online gala Feb. 11

By Anne Joseph

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden watch a military pass in review ceremony on the East Front of the Capitol at the conclusion of the inauguration ceremonies, in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

January 29, 2021, 5:05 am

Librettist Gene Scheer is awed Biden cited his ‘American Anthem’ at inauguration

The songwriter speaks about the shocking moment he realized the president was quoting his work, and what it means to him as a Jewish American

By Ron Kampeas

In this May 29, 2009 file photo, music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

January 17, 2021, 6:46 pm

Phil Spector, ‘Wall of Sound’ music producer, murderer, dies at 81

Hailed by John Lennon as ‘the greatest record producer ever,’ Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003; jailed for 19 years, he died in a prison hospital

By Linda Deutsch and Christopher Weber

New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain in 1980. (Peter Noble/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

January 17, 2021, 8:31 am

Sylvain Sylvain, Jewish guitarist for the New York Dolls, dies aged 69

Musician hailed as a ‘lynchpin’ of the influential rock band; moved to the US as a child when his family fled rising anti-Semitism in Cairo in 1956

By Gabe Friedman

Clockwise from top left: Woody Allen (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File); Sacha Baron Cohen as Boart (Screenshot); Seth Rogen in 'American Pickle' (Courtesy HBO); Cover of 'Self Care' by Leigh Stein (Courtesy); Members of the band Haim (CC-SA-2.0/ Flickr/ Raph_PH); Zoe Kazan in 'The Plot Against America' (Michele K. Short/HBO).

December 28, 2020, 11:44 pm

PODCAST: ToI’s top 11 countdown of Jew-ish TV, songs, movies and books of 2020

The year felt like one long rainy day, but there was plenty to do indoors. Jordan Hoffman put together a list of funny, touching, and thought-provoking releases from the Tribe

By Jordan Hoffman

Jewish hip hop singer Nissim Black performs at a Hanukkah festival in Pittsburgh, 2018. (Esther Wayne/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

December 10, 2020, 8:13 am

Orthodox rapper remakes ‘Hava Nagila’ just in time for Hanukkah

‘The Hava Song’ by Nissim Black, who declares during the song that he’s ‘Black, Jewish and proud,’ is a modern take on the classic tune

By LAURA E. ADKINS

December 7, 2020, 5:33 pm

Dylan sells rights to his entire 60-year catalog of songs to Universal Music

Publishing group acquires collection of over 600 tracks, whose influence is probably only matched by The Beatles’

By AP