“La-bri’ut” by Jay Rapoport (JKids Radio)
Our physical, mental and emotional health is ALWAYS important, and it’s been a big focus of this past year. Now that the winter’s here, I thought this would be a great time to share with you a...
Jordan Palmer, DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
• Published October 31, 2021
Are you on Spotify? You need to be this week to enjoy and celebrate one of the greatest and most tragic Jewish artists of the last century.
Spotify “enhances” certain albums by turning them into a playlist, but it's usually newer music that gets...
Benjamin Ivry, Forward
• Published September 12, 2021
Born in 2004, the Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon has just signed an exclusive contract with Warner Classics. This is only the latest achievement in a career that already includes winning the National Piano Competition in Israel at age five, followed by...
To mark his transition from poet to musician, Leonard Cohen once thought he might change his name to “September.”
“I always have this feeling that new things are beginning and I thought that I would change my name and get a tattoo,” Cohen told...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 24, 2021
How does one travel around the world as a global superstar and manage to be a dedicated mom at the same time? The artist known as Pink could teach a course on it.
The Jewish musician doesn't just sing or dance on stage; she does it all at the same...
A special series of events focusing on the revival of Eastern European Jewish music is coming to St. Louis in March. First, on Sunday, March 29, Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and music director for Itzhak Perlman’s...
United Hebrew Congregation will welcome musicians Mikey Pauker and Billy Jonas as artists-in-residence from Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb. 23. Pauker and Jonas will take part in a Friday night Shabbat service, lead a Q&A Lunch ‘N’ Learn...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Jewish Light
• Published November 14, 2019
Greta Rosenstock has a warm personality, a 1,000-watt smile and a golden voice. She also celebrates Judaism through music and song. Those qualities helped move the 23-year-old former St. Louisan into contention as a finalist in the 2019 Jewish Star Talent...
St. Louis-based Jewish rock musician Rick Recht will perform spiritual Jewish music with Congregation Temple Israel’s rabbis and regular Shabbat musicians at Shabbat services on Friday, Aug. 17. The Shabbat Alive! service is free and open to the public....
By Eric Berger, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 26, 2018
When Cantor Shira Lissek performs in the main sanctuary at Congregation B’nai Amoona, the acoustics will likely be familiar to her. That’s where she sang in the choir as a teenager and where her father, Leon Lissek, spent 30 years as the hazzan.If...
The Jewish Community Center and the St. Louis Rabbinical Association will present the third annual Jewish Mystic Jam at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 at the J, 2 Millstone Campus Drive.Experience a master storyteller, sing with the Niggun Collective and...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 17, 2016
When it comes to expressing the reason Jewish music in St. Louis is so special, Joanna Dulkin doesn’t hesitate. Standing in a hallway at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex, the former cantor of Shaare Zedek gestures at the man...
