Efrat, Israel – “The Levitic kohanim, the entire tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; the Lord’s fire offerings and His inheritance they shall eat. But he shall have no ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. It’s no exaggeration to say that the renaissance of traditional Eastern-European Jewish music of the 1970s and 1980s would have never occurred ...

The musicologist published more than 150 volumes of Jewish music in a career spanning more than half a century. (JTA) — Musicologist and publisher Velvel Pasternak, who published more than 150 volumes ...

I “met” Velvel Pasternak through his daughter and blogger Shira Pasternak Be’eri. Shira happens to be another blogger for The Times of Israel. In April 2019, she published a blog entitled “How the ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Velvel Pasternak, the publisher, scholar and nonpareil Jewish music historian primarily known for his expertise on the music of Hasidism, has ...

BroadwayWorld Rhode Island recently interviewed the creative team behind And Then What? The Children of Velvel and Sheina-Gitel Averbukh, a new play by First Hand Theatrical based on Bena Shklyanoy's ...