“Hava Nagila” is the typical soundtrack to Jewish weddings and b’nai mitzvah — and, these days, brutal hand-to-hand fighting with naked combatants. Two streaming shows have recently picked up where ...

Abraham Zevi Idelsohn was a Jewish musicologist, composer, and cantor born in 1882 in Latvia. He is best known for preserving and studying Jewish music from around the world. After moving to Jerusalem ...

You're at a wedding or bar mitzvah, mingling at the bar or catching up with a distant relative, when you hear it — the opening notes of a familiar tune that as if by some invisible force carries you ...

MOBILE, Alabama--What song do Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan and Bar and Bat Mitzvah bands all across the land have in common? Why, "Hava Nagila," of course. Belafonte's 1959 Carnegie Hall performance of ...

You’d expect a movie about a song that has become the Hebrew “Hokey Pokey” to be playful. And “Hava Nagila (The Movie)” is that, in spades. That wedding, party and bar mitzvah staple, a song that the ...

Director Roberta Grossman talks about her new film, which traces the evolution of the song that everybody knows — but nobody knows much about... Film Hoists 'Hava Nagila' Up Onto A Chair, In ...

One day, in the summer of 2008, the question “‘Hava Nagila’ — what is it?” popped into Roberta Grossman’s head. Although she was familiar with the ubiquitous song, she was clueless about its origins.

Well-researched and breezily told, “Hava Nagila (The Movie)” is nonetheless a rather conventional documentary with a head-spinning number of talking-head academics and historians exploring the roots ...

(JTA) — The latest single by Nissim Black, a pathbreaking Orthodox hip-hop artist, reimagines what may be the mostly widely known Jewish song. “The Hava Song,” released on Black’s 34th birthday ...

The short and sweet documentary “Hava Nagila (The Movie)” is a lively portrait of what is arguably the most ubiquitous Jewish song or, as one observer wryly puts it, “the kudzu of Jewish music.” ...

Roberta Grossman’s new film explores the phenomenon behind the iconic folk song and offers some perspective on why it has been so beloved — and so hated — over the years. NEW YORK (JTA) — You’re at a ...

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 ...