Dear Friends, After two wonderful years studying in Israel, my wife Chaya and I are back on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It's taken a few weeks to get...
Dear Friends, I'm slowly getting back into the NYC groove, so please send me any more events to be included in next week's email. This weekend we celebrate Tu...
Dear Friends, As much as I'm sad about leaving Israel, especially during this difficult time for the Jewish people, NY is the second-best place to be. There's...
Dear Friends, After spending the past two years in Israel, I forgot how much Jewish music is going on in NY! Sorry for such a long list, but I tried not to...
Dear Friends, I've gotten off to a great start at my new pulpit, Congregation Ramath Orah, where I'm working as rabbinic intern. The shul has a very warm and...
Dear Friends, This weekend Ashkenazim begin the practice (Sephardim have been doing it all month) of saying the special selichos prayers, urging us along the...
Dear Friends, Sorry I haven't sent out a music update in the past couple of weeks: the High Holidays are the busiest time of year for both rabbis and cantors,...
Dear Friends, I was out until 4am last night checking out the simchas beis hasho'eva (Sukkos party) scene in Borough Park. Every Chassidic sect sets up its...
Dear Friends, This Shabbos we announce the new Jewish month of Cheshvan, nicknamed marcheshvan (the bitter month) for its lack of holidays, especially...
Dear Friends, Announcing: 3 concerts with Yosef Karduner, visiting from Israel for his 5th annual NY concert tour. Raised as a secular Israeli and now a...
Dear Friends, Two new concerts have been added to Yosef Karduner's US concert tour before he goes back home to Israel: tonight in Queens and tomorrow night in...
Dear Friends, Tonight, 16th of Marcheshvan, is the 11th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and his songs, stories and teachings continue to be a profound...
Dear Friends, Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Kislev, beginning the month of Chanukah, when we celebrate the role of the Jewish people to bring more light to the...
Dear Friends, This weekend I'm fleeing the cold NY weather and flying south to Boca Raton to be a guest chazan for Shabbos. But if you're stuck here, you can...
Dear Friends, There are so many great concerts coming up for Chanukah. I tried to list as many as I had time to find, but I'm sure I still missed a few. If...
Dear Friends, I can barely keep up with all the concerts this year for Chanukah -- there's so much going on! If you want to hear some of my new Chanukah...
Dear Friends, As Chanukah is winding to a close, I found a few more concerts for you to check out. We add one candle each night because we always increase in...
Dear Friends, This Shabbos we bless the new month of Sh'vat, announcing that Rosh Chodesh will be this coming Monday, Jan 30. That means spring is in the air,...
Dear Friends, I'd like to dedicate this week's music update to my friend and former band-mate Seth Nadel - he and his wife Na'ama were blessed with a baby boy...
Dear Friends, This Shabbos we read Parshat Yitro, featuring the Divine Revelation at Mount Sinai. Take note how the music of the trop (tune for reading the...
Dear Friends, Tomorrow in shul we announce the new month of Adar (Rosh Chodesh is Tuesday and Wednesday). The Talmud tells us Mishenichnas Adar Marbim...
Dear Friends, Tomorrow morning, Friday, Mar 3, sometime between 8:15-9am I'm going to be on the radio with Nachum Segal, on 91.1 FM (or live on the web), as...
Dear Friends, There is so much Jewish music happening in NY for Purim, a great way to tap into the spiritual dimensions of the holiday -- it's about coming...
Dear Friends, Hopefully you've recovered from your Purim hangovers by now, so you can enjoy some great post-Purim music. I'd like to invite you to a kumsitz...
Dear Friends, Everyone is invited to a kumsitz (informal concert) tonight to commemorate the 20th yahrtzeit (anniversary of death) of my mother, Blima Faiga...
Dear Friends, We just celebrated Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the first day of the Springtime month, when the Jewish people were redeemed from Egyptian slavery, and in...
Dear Friends, Get ready for all the music to accompany our celebration of Pesach, the holiday of our freedom from slavery and of the birth of the Jewish...
Dear Friends, Now that Pesach is over, the Jewish calendar enters the period known as Sefiras Ha'Omer (the counting of the Omer), which lasts until the holiday...
Dear Friends, We're still in the period of the Jewish calendar known as Sefiras Ha'Omer (the counting of the Omer), which we observe as a state of mourning...
Dear Friends, With Lag ba'Omer behind us, the ban on live music is lifted, according to many opinions, so enjoy some of these concerts. But the real...
