Judaica and other items belonging to the influential late rabbi-musician Shlomo Carlebach will be auctioned next month. The Feb. 29 auction at J. Greenstein & Co.’s Auction House in Cedarhurst, New ...

A version of this post originally appeared in Yiddish. Filmmaker Menachem Daum, whose 2004 documentary, “Hiding and Seeking,” portrayed his journey to Poland to search for the peasant family that ...

If the story of Nina Simone and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach isn't widely known, the late blues icon's daughter Lisa Simone is ready to change that. "My mother will have been dead 20 years and I'm still ...

On Shabbat, Shlomo Tannor often encounters a problem common to regular synagogue-goers: He’ll hear a tune that sounds familiar but he can’t place it. When Shabbat is over, he’ll have no way to look it ...

Thursday marked the 27th anniversary of the passing of Reb Shlomo Carlebach, who once told his friends that he had stood at an intersection where three different wedding halls stood and heard his ...

The show, which debuted on Broadway in 2013, was made before the #MeToo movement intensified scrutiny of the sexual misconduct allegations against the pioneering rabbi. (JTA) — A filmed version of ...

You might not have heard of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. But you've certainly felt his influence, especially if you're Jewish. Carlebach is the innovative father of popular Jewish music, and through his ...

One of the old video cassette tapes sitting in a box in the small moshav of Sde Warburg was a special treasure for Hebron spokesman Noam Arnon. The long-time resident of the City of Abraham was going ...

It was Lag b’Omer, in the mystical hours of bonfires and secrets, when a late-May heat wave lay heavy over Israel. Fire trucks raced to dozens of fires attributed to the heat, the holiday, even arson.

One of my students once asked me what was the greatest gift that my teacher Reb Shlomo Carlebach gave me. My reply was immediate: “He gave me a new pair of eyes.” I had grown up praying from the first ...

A filmed version of “Soul Doctor,” the 2013 Broadway musical about the life of the influential and controversial rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, will play in 600 movie theaters nationwide for one night only — ...