Dear friends, Today is the first day the month of Nissan, the beginning of Springtime, and according to our tradition just as it was the month in which the...
Dear friends, I won't be able to send an email next week since I'll be going to Minsk (in the former Soviet Union) to run the seders there, so I'm including...
Dear friends, I'm back in the US after an incredible trip in the former USSR. My wife and I spent Pesach in Minsk: leading the seders and bringing some ruach...
Dear friends, Tomorrow night, Tuesday May 6 is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, as we mark 55 years of the new state of Israel. There are different...
Dear friends, Today, Friday May 16, is the 14th day of the month of Iyar, one of the least known Biblical holidays: Pesach Sheni, the second Passover. See...
Dear friends, There is a beautiful tradition of bringing in the Shabbos with much singing and dancing. This custom was revived by the Chassidic movement two...
Dear friends, Today is Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. It marked the first time in two millennia that the holiest places...
Dear friends, Tomorrow night, Thursday June 5, is the first night of Shavuos, commemorating the receiving of the Torah 3315 years ago at Mount Sinai. There is...
Dear friends, This summer's kumsitz series was inaugurated last Sunday on a special kumsitz hike with the Jewish Outdoors Club. Thanks to the sixty hikers who...
Dear friends, I regret to announce that in a couple of months I'm going to have to stop sending out these weekly Jewish music emails. I started a few years...
Dear friends, This weekend there's a lot of great Jewish music going on. I guess it's the last chance before the summer really hits. I'll be performing to...
Dear friends, I'm writing this on a train heading back from a weekend in the beautiful town of Sharon, a tree-filled suburb of Boston. This is a wonderful...
Dear friends, Here's this week's Jewish music update, after a month-long hiatus due to the music restrictions of the Three Weeks (and the crash of my laptop --...
Dear friends, In a few days I'm off to Israel for a year of learning, so this will be my final weekend in NYC: I'll be leading the davening with lots of...
Dear friends, I'm in Israel now for a year of learning, so I'm not able to continue the NY musiclist from here. Instead I'm starting up again the Israel music...
B"H Shalom Friends! Jewish Music Continues! My friend and teacher Reb Gili Houpt has entrusted me with the important duty of letting you all know about the...
B"H Shalom Friends, I hope everyone is having a beautiful start to a year, please G-d, filled with blessings. Friday at sundown begins the holiday of ...
B"H Shalom Friends, This Sat. night begins the Jewish month of Cheshvan. It is often called "Mar" Cheshvan, meaning bitter, since the month lacks Jewish ...
B"H Shalom Friends, This Monday evening, the 16th of Mar Cheshvan, commemorates the 9th yahrtzeit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach. Reb Shlomo's music and message ...
B"H Shalom Friends, This week Reva L' Sheva is in from Eretz Yisrael, on tour and supporting their latest release, a live double album entitled "Ten," marking...
B"H Shalom Friends, As the snow storm approaches, I'm heading up to Monsey for a special Carlebach shabbos at the Community Synagogue of Monsey, home of my ...
B'H Shalom Friends, The joyous holiday of Chanukah begins this Friday evening. While we celebrate with the mitzvah of lighting candles, eating special foods,...
B'H Shalom friends, Next Shabbos is the holiday of Tu B'Shvat- the 15th of the Jewish month of Shevat. The Talmud(Rosh Hashanah) tells us that the 15th of ...
B'H Dear Friends, Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! It's a boy! With much gratitude to the Almighty, my wife Na'ama and I announce the birth of our son! He was born this...
B'H Shalom Friends, In celebration of Purim, enjoy these great music events! Tonight, Thursday, March 4th, @ 8pm Neshama Carlebach and her band get crazy in...
B'H Shalom Friends, This Monday evening begins the holiday of Pesach where we remember the back-breaking labor our anscestors were forced to do while enslaved...
B'H Shalom Friends, This Monday is Yom HaAtzmaut- Israel Independence Day. There are many musical celebrations commemorating the establishment of the State of...
B'H Shalom Friends, This Sunday is Lag Ba'Omer (literally the 33rd day of the Omer), it commemorates the day that the students of R. Akiva stopped dying and is...
B'H Dear Friends, It is with gratitude to Hashem that I announce the release of my debut cd, "Achas Shoalti- One Thing I ask," a project that I have been...
Dear Friends, Hello from Yerushalayim!!! My year of learning in the Holy Land is almost over, and I'll be coming back for the summer, but then next year I...
