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Christopher Erskin sees no contradiction in being a Jewish director helming the gospel series 'Kingdom Business.'

The season finale cliffhanger for "Kingdom Business," set in the world of the gospel music business, was directed by Jewish director Christopher Erskin.

The Jewish News of Northern California

The Crossing choir’s Christmas concerts will premiere 12 new compositions written for a pandemic.

Speaking alongside Sens. Schumer and Cardin, Amb. Michael Herzog framed Israel’s conflict with its foes as ‘a struggle between light and darkness’

JTA — If anyone can pull off a bluegrass song about Anne Frank, it’s Nefesh Mountain, a husband-and-wife duo from New Jersey that has been a standard-bearer of Jewish bluegrass for years. The group has appeared in Rolling Stone and national bluegrass magazines and worked with some of the most respected bluegrass session players as they have put an Americana spin on Jewish prayers such as “Mi Chamocha” and “Modeh Ani” and released other songs that tap into Jewish traditions. “What ...

Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are Nefesh Mountain. (Lawrence Rickford) Advertisement (JTA) — If anyone can pull off a bluegrass song about Anne Frank, it’s Nefesh Mountain, a husband-and-wife duo from New Jersey that has been a standard-bearer of Jewish bluegrass for years. The group has appeared in Rolling Stone and national bluegrass magazines and worked with some of the most respected bluegrass session players as they have put an Americana spin on Jewish prayers such as �...

The entire album is a response to the wave of feelings and emotions the pair felt after coming back “roots trip” to Poland and Ukraine.

By Riki Goldstein May 4, 2021 The songs are soulful, and the pesukim Binyamin chose reflect where his mind was focused, even as his body was wracked by the disease   Binyamin Zwickler a”h, a young man who passed away in 2017 at age 25, had a passion for music that helped him through the challenges of his seven-year-long illness. The Far Rockaway native, diagnosed with cancer in his senior year in high school, composed a collec...