Thank you Ray Chew and Vivian Chew for joining us for Shabbat last Friday and closing our service with these poignant words and music, helping us understand how our brothers and sisters from the African American community feel. May we all be a bridge over troubled waters.

"My Yiddishe Momme" was originally written in 1925 by Jack Yellen as a personal tribute to his mother who recently had died. A few years later he asked Lew Pollack to work on the melody with him, and eventually the song credits read JACK YELLEN (words) JACK YELLEN and LEW POLLACK (music). Singer: ...

Lighting the Hanukkah candles with my children is one of my favorite traditions. Tonight as we enter the festival of lights, wishing you all many blessings, health, joy and love. Happy Hanukkah!

I hope that this Adon Olam, composed by Cantor Pinchas Minkowsky (1859-1924) of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa inspires your prayers and actions for peace in Ukraine. Praying for the safety of the Ukrainian people and wishing you a Shabbat Shalom.

Located on a 22-dunam (5.5-acre) parcel of land overlooking the Mediterranean, the Port of Tel Aviv and alongside Tel Aviv’s largest green belt, the World’s Jewish Museum will be a new symbol of the Jewish people. The project will connect Hayarkon Park, the Mediterranean Sea and anchor the Tel Aviv

The Festival of Lights calls us to light a candle, banish the darkness, say a blessing, and enjoy the miracle of light. While this song was written for the Eurovision Song Contest, not for Hanukkah, I couldn’t resist its imagery of fighting hopelessness by creating light together. And, it was origin

At the gate of the new year, I’m excited about all that 2022 can bring. The message of this song resonates clearly – that we will get through good times and bad together. I’m honored to collaborate with five-time Grammy-winning Christian artist Israel Houghton on this cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s cl

Anchored by a strong Jewish identity and driven by a mission to connect Jews around the globe with their heritage through music, professional Jewish a cappella group Six13 are the originators of today's Jewish a cappella sound. This is the acape;;aversion of the reknown play: Hamilton.

In honor of Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s 50th birthday last April, I was thrilled to arrange a surprise appearance of our dear friend Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue. I hope that this rendition of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young reignites your youthful sparks of curiosity and joy.
Wishing you a Sha

The Maccabeats have also incorporated images of Jewish survival and solidarity through the decades, from that German image of a menorah in a window sill surrounded by Nazi flags, to the 1933 American Jewish Congress march against Nazism, to the 1987 march for Soviet Jewry in DC. There are also plent...