Blog in Dm: Blogging Jewish Music from A to Zorn!

The Jerusalem Post reports: When Jerusalem-born Daniel Cohen was 15-years-old, he wanted to become a professional drummer. So when a friend ...

Safam, or Artscroll... which would you choose?

Here's a Gershon Veroba composition performed by Reva L'Sheva and Mevaseret Alumni.

Win a Les Paul "Black Beauty" electric guitar and hard case from Epiphone in the Guitar Face Contest!

In which Psycho Toddler convinces Sting the West Bank wall is needed...

Greg Sandow has a thought-provoking post on Elvis Costello's classical debut. Many of his questions/comments are equally applicable to ...

Madonna influenced "Kabbalah Red String" from Kever Rachel is now for sale at Target. A centuries-old spiritual tool used by Kabba...

David Bogner writes: Like many of my JM colleagues, I was asked to play 'tzedakah jobs' from time to time. Nursing homes were the mo...

One reader asks: Any particular songs you recommend for Nachamu? Apart from the obvious Nachamu songs by Carlebach and Safam, I like songs ...

This afternoon I watched the OU Tisha B'Av video presentation on chesed. In that spirit, I'd like to focus on aspects of JM chesed ...

Is That Legal? has a nice response to New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent; who is turning out to be quite a disappointment. The tru...

The Plain Dealer talks with clarinetist Bert Stratton of the "Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band." 'Colleges and museums always have n...

The Forward reports that the Conservative movement has added Naomi Shemer's "Yerusholayim Shel Zahav" as a "kinah"...

Amid recent reports that Madonna is planning to record in Yiddish, "Something Jewish" offers up some possible songs, musicians an...

From the The Jerusalem Report : After a recent Broadway matinee performance of "Fiddler on the Roof," a small group of Orthodox ma...

Shmuel Klaver writes in response to the Kurt Bjorling quote in the previous post and points out that three plus three equals six, not five. ...

Recently, I’ve been reading Mark Slobin’s “Fiddler On The Move: Exploring The Klezmer World.” Amazon has it here: There are lots of ...

eBay is running a six month test to decide if it wants to get into selling downloadable music, according to this report.

Coming soon: Gershon Veroba's new concert band, "Takanah!" "The rules have changed!"

Eric Olsen on "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter."