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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 we’re doing is not goofy at all, it’s very soulful and very honest,” singer Doni Zasloff told ...

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 “Mi Chamocha” and “Modeh Ani” and released other songs that tap into Jewish traditions. “Wha...

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 collection of deeply personal songs that he mostly kept to himself, but a few months before he passed away...