Exemplifying the universal power of pop music on screen is a key scene in the FX limited series “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” As Jesse Eisenberg’s protagonist Toby Fleishman, a divorced father mired in ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.17.1.157 Copy URL ABSTRACT The article discusses Naomi Shemer's ...

In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, we thought it might be fun to post three Yiddish versions of well-known Israeli songs that became popular among Holocaust survivors and other ...

(JTA) — If you read the “Harry Potter” series in Hebrew you may have noticed a curious Jewish fact: Though Sirius Black isn’t Jewish, the character sings a Hanukkah song in one scene. In an interview ...

Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday. She was 83. Damari, who was battling pneumonia, had ...

Whether you love it or you hate it, you know it: "Hava Nagila." Maybe you grew up listening to Harry Belafonte's rendition, or found yourself in a chair being hoisted into the air by a singing crowd ...

Yagel Oshri’s “Getting Over Depression” has become an unofficial anthem in a country where iconic songs often emerge from crises. (JTA) — An Israeli reservist on leave from the war in Gaza sneaks back ...