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John Lithgow accepts the award for best performance by a leading actor in a play for "Giant" during the 79th Tony Awards, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
June 8, 2026, 12:03 pm
John Lithgow wins Tony for portraying antisemitic author Roald Dahl in ‘Giant’
Actor takes his third Tony; ‘Schmigadoon,’ a parody of Broadway classics, wins best new musical; Shoshana Bean takes best featured actress in a musical for ‘The Lost Boys’
By AP
A clip published by Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency on May 31, 2026, shows people enjoying music as a guitarist plays onstage at a Tehran cafe that authorities accused of satanic activities. (Screen capture: X/Tasnim)
May 31, 2026, 12:56 pm
Iranian authorities shutter Tehran cafe over alleged ‘satanic’ activities
Prime-location venue featured Western-style music that ‘provided a setting for abnormal behaviors,’ local media says; regime has long labeled rock and heavy metal as satanic
By AFP
Tom Cohen conducts the youth program of The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West in Tel Aviv, May 2026. (Yaakov Buta via JTA)
May 29, 2026, 11:02 am
In Jerusalem, an Arab-Jewish youth orchestra builds a new ‘East-West’ sound together
After years of war, conductor Tom Cohen says Jerusalem Orchestra East & West offers young musicians from across communities rare source of joy, discipline and hope
By Deborah Danan
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim gestures during a gathering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., Monday, April 12, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
May 23, 2026, 11:52 am
New biography hits the high and low notes of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim’s life
Author Daniel Okrent doesn’t miss a beat analyzing the music, lyrics — and complicated personality — of the extremely secular Jewish maverick who revolutionized American musical theater
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Violinist Stefan Jackiw holds the 1714 Joachim-Ma Stradivarius at Sotheby's auction house in New York on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
April 24, 2026, 5:42 pm
300-year-old Nazi-looted Stradivarius said to reappear in France
Experts believe violin made by iconic Italian luthier in 1719 was stolen by German soldiers from Warsaw museum in 1944
By Isabelle Le Page and Damien Stroka
Israeli-American music producer Yuval Chain. (The Revels Group)
February 7, 2026, 5:07 pm
As Bad Bunny plays the Super Bowl, he’ll be cheered on by the Israeli-American producer on his team
Yuval Chain helped create music for Latin rapper’s Grammy-winning album, and has worked with stars including Drake and Post Malone
By Zev Stub
The 'Lord of the Sounds' orchestra with mostly Ukrainian musicians will perform January 10-20, 2026, in Israel (Courtesy)
January 11, 2026, 10:32 am
‘Lords of the Sound’ orchestra back for 2nd tour amid wartime boycott
Ensemble, made up mostly of Ukrainian artists, performing 11 concerts across Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Spanish pop star Rosalia on the cover of her latest album, 'Lux,' in which she sings in Hebrew, and 12 other languages (Courtesy)
November 22, 2025, 6:38 am
Rosalia’s new album soars with Hebrew verses and sacred imagery
Songs on Spanish pop star’s acclaimed ‘Lux’ include verses in 13 languages, delve into female saints and how they’re seen in different cultures; some lyrics inspired by biblical Miriam
By Jessica Steinberg and Agencies
David Draiman of Disturbed performs September 28, 2024, at Highland Festival Grounds in Louisville, Kentucky. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
October 11, 2025, 8:26 pm
Multiple concerts said canceled in Belgium, Turkey over performers’ Israel support
US metal band Disturbed and UK singer-songwriter Morrissey both have shows nixed, with reports saying images of their past visits to Israel were the reason
By ToI Staff
Dr. David Catalunya, a researcher at the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences (ICCMU) in Madrid, and organ expert Koos van de Linde, with the ‘Oldest organ in Christendom,’ dating back to the 11th century, which was unveiled to the public at the Saint Savior’s Monastery of Jerusalem’s Old City on September 9, 2025. (CTS)
September 12, 2025, 10:25 am
‘Oldest organ in Christendom’ makes music in Jerusalem after centuries of silence
A team of researchers studied and restored dozens of organ pipes crafted some 1,000 years ago for Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, which are now on display at the Terra Sancta Museum
By Rossella Tercatin
Leon Botstein, Bard College president and director of its orchestra, leads a concert in Nuremberg, Germany, May 8, 2025. (Anton Doppelbauer via JTA)
July 29, 2025, 4:45 pm
80 years after WWII, Bard orchestra performs Mendelssohn at site of Nuremberg Nazi rallies
Conductor and college president Leon Botstein, son of Holocaust survivors, says concert was not just a commemoration, but a pledge to fight intolerance and uphold democracy
By Shira Li Bartov
Michael Garcia waves a Supernova festival flag at the Glastonbury music festival in the UK, June 2025. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2025, 10:40 am
As UK festivals go anti-Israel, some Jewish concert-goers try to crowd surf above the hate
Despite pervasive anti-Israel sentiment in music culture, some Jewish attendees also say they have no trouble finding others in tune with their values
By Lianne Kolirin
Thom Yorke performs with Radiohead at Philips Arena, Atlanta, April 1, 2017. (Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)
May 31, 2025, 4:57 pm
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke condemns ‘cynical’ Hamas, ‘extremist’ Netanyahu government
Artist writes that ‘intimidation and defamation’ by ‘opportunistic groups’ has hurt his mental health; ‘The Free Palestine refrain does not answer why hostages have not returned’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Art collector Tamás Tálosi holds the ''violin of hope'', in Magyarpolány, Hungary, April 22, 2025. (/Nikolett Csanyi / AP)
April 30, 2025, 3:44 pm
Secret note reveals origin of violin crafted by Jewish inmate inside Dachau
Confused by expert craft but poor materials, Hungarian art dealers find message from Franciszek Kempa detailing 1941 creation of instrument under dire conditions in Nazi camp
By Justin Spike
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist. (Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra via JTA)
April 25, 2025, 9:37 am
Battling cancer, Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert
The scion of Yiddish theater royalty announces a ‘coda’ this weekend to a spectacular career leading orchestras and writing music
By Penny Schwartz
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