“Sing, girl!” a member of the St. Brigid Catholic Church, an African American South L.A. based church, called out encouragingly from her seat in the synagogue pews, as a young vocalist, part of Temple ...

The poem by Primo Levi that begins my haggadah echoes the line in Exodus that tells us the Israelites fleeing Egypt were joined by an “erev rav” — a mixed multitude. Commentators explain these were ...

Passover is one of the most musical of Jewish holidays. The annual springtime celebration of the ancient Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt is full of beloved traditions, from the elaborate ...