For Haim Milshtein, running folk-dancing programs is a passion—and a comfort. Photo credit: Hillel Kuttler. Haim Milshtein stepped around the table hosting his laptop, side-stepping the wires running ...
A complex 20th-century history allowed for few outside influences, but Israeli folk dances left a lasting impact. For many of these locals, the dances are familiar, almost second nature. All over the ...
(JTA) It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge that doubled as a ...
From Idan Raichel to Subliminal, Aviv Geffen to Karolina, these are the artists whose discs continue to define the musical tapestry of modern Israel. Idan Raichel ,Cabra Casay and friends perform in ...
Danny Pollock's interest in Israeli folk dance blossomed in childhood. At age 10, he would sit patiently as his mother took lessons, observing her movements. Then one day as he sat watching, the ...
The impromptu group sings a collection of Israeli and Jewish folk songs and standards, from “Hava Nagila” to songs professing a hope for peace and a brighter future, like “Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu,” or ...
Why a viral “anti-war” singer is really singing Hamas’ talking points—and erasing the Zionist roots of American protest music. Folk music has long been a battleground of conscience—a genre where the ...
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