Rock The Torah [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal
Published on April 1, 2013

Life in the Lopez Beatles [VIDEO]

Published on January 9, 2013

Newspaper-reading Angelenos may recognize the byline Robert Lloyd. What they may not know is that the Los Angeles Times television critic once was more concerned with singing about a “Bitchen Party” than with covering the Golden Globes, which take place this year on Jan. 13.

Matisyahu without the beard in music video for ‘Sunshine’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on June 15, 2012

Clean-shaven Matisyahu releases teaser for new song ‘Sunshine’ [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal.com
Published on June 15, 2012

Best Marriage Proposal Ever? [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal.com
Published on May 30, 2012

The Hope [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal
Published on April 23, 2012

Moves Like Moses [VIDEO]

By JewishJournal
Published on April 5, 2012

Jonah Hill: ‘Moneyball’s’ super-talented, super-nice Jewish boy [VIDEO]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on January 11, 2012

El Camino by LA Gypsy

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on October 6, 2011

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Dem Phones Dem Phones Dem iPhones—Hear the Word of the Lord’

By The Web Guy
Published on December 28, 2008

A recreation? A mashup of old video and new audio? Whatever, it's great!

MUSIC VIDEO: Tom Lehrer—‘I’m spending Chanukah in Santa Monica’

Published on December 23, 2008

A Tom Lehrer oldie turned into a video by a fan

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘All I want for Christmas is Jews’

Published on December 20, 2008

Relax -- it's comedy

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Chanukah, O Chanukah’ (extra kvelling version)

Published on December 12, 2008

We don't know anything about YouTube user Birdman445 except that she posted the most kvell-worthy version of 'Chanukah, O Chanukah' we've ever seen.

HaDag Nachash: Atypical Israel band hip-hops to Hollywood

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on November 12, 2008

Its six members, known for their mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and reggae, rose to the top of the Israeli charts with smart, biting lyrics that reflect Israeli life and appeal to Israel's growing hip-hop scene. The songs often express a leftist point of view and are critical of everything Israeli.

It can’t happen here

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 12, 2008

"People choose to remain gay, and people choose to remain Jewish," said an organizer. "Why should the majority of us be forced to honor that choice?"

MUSIC VIDEO: Hannah Friedman: ‘Oh, Obama’

Published on November 6, 2008

Writer (and singer) Hannah Friedman stayed up all night to bring us this song

MUSIC VIDEO: Oy, McCainia! (to the tune of ‘Rumania Rumania’)

Published on November 3, 2008

The classic Yiddish folk tune 'Rumania, Rumania' provides the inspiration for this pro-Obama music video

MUSIC VIDEO: Hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari Obama video —‘Stand With Me’

Published on October 15, 2008

Miri Ben-Ari, a Grammy Award-Winning violinist, originally from Israel, presents her rendition of the national anthem. titled 'Stand With Me' -- a music video in support of Sen. Barack Obama.

JDub throws off the label and opts for change

By George Robinson
Published on July 23, 2008

JDub was never supposed to be just a record label, and as JDub records celebrates its fifth anniversary with a free concert on July 27 downtown at California Plaza, it is more clear than ever that the organization's founders have greater ambitions than merely putting out good Jewish CDs

The source of häMAKOR -- it's all in the family

Published on June 26, 2008

When Israeli band häMAKOR headlined the Israel Day Concert in Central Park, front man Nachman Solomon walked onstage with an Israeli flag draped around his shoulders and blue-and-white souvenir sunglasses tucked into his jeans pocket

Melding world’s sounds, Ben Ari seeks harmony

By Meredith Price
Published on June 12, 2008

He's been called the Israeli Bob Marley and the king of Israeli soul. Others claim that he may be the call to prayer that we've all been waiting for from the Middle East

MUSIC VIDEO: Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys— ‘Yiddish Hula Boy’

By The Web Guy
Published on May 23, 2008

Hollywood ragtime sweetie Janet Klein sings a 1920s Tin Pan Alley tragedy -- tailor Izzy Cohen visits Honolulu, falls in love with the hula hotties, and writes wife Becky that he won't be back no more.

MUSIC VIDEO: Janet Klein—‘Cohen owes me 97 dollars’

By The Web Guy
Published on May 22, 2008

Hollywood ragtime sweetie Janet Klein sings Irving Berlin's "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars" at the Tin Pan Alley show during the Annual West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento last November (2007)

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Who’s Yehudi?’ 1943 ‘Soundie’

By The Web Guy
Published on May 22, 2008

Video jukebox clip from the 1940s has that shimmy and shake -- and a stereotyped 'yehudi'

Miriam and Shoshana—the hardcore Jewish gangster girls from Pico-Robertson

Published on May 12, 2008

Kol HaMispallel—All those who pray

By The Web Guy
Published on May 12, 2008

Video of Kol HaMispallel by the Yeshiva boys choir.

MUSIC VIDEO: Hadar Manor—‘Queen of the Underground’

Published on March 22, 2008

Israeli singer Hadar Manor -- who lives in London -- was just named 'Queen of the Underground' -- and here's why!

Jewgrass adds a new song to the South

By David Kaufmann
Published on March 20, 2008

First there was bluegrass, then there was newgrass and now, perhaps inevitably, there is Jewgrass.

MUSIC VIDEO Brandon Walker Harris—‘Chinese Food on Christmas’

Published on December 21, 2007

A sad tale of a lonely Jewish boy on Christmas

Rock the vote music video, Jordanian style

By JewishJournal.com
Published on November 22, 2007

MUSIC VIDEO: Gad Elbaz and Alon de Loco in ‘Ha layla ze haz’man’—‘Tonight’s the Night’

Published on November 9, 2007

t's not Jets and Sharks, nor Bloods and Crips, but . . .

Two Israeli cliques somehow manage to 'just get along' in this hiphop music video from rappers Gad Elbaz and Alon de Loco

MUSIC VIDEO: Leah (Obama Girl) Kauffman—‘Perfected: The Ann Coulter Song’

Published on November 2, 2007

Jews need to be 'perfected,' says right-wing darling Ann Coulter. Not so fast, sings Leah 'Obama Girl' Kauffman in 'Perfected: The Ann Coulter Song' -- a YouTube hit music video

MUSIC VIDEO: Avigal Cohen—’ Erev Rosh HaShanah’ (New Year’s Eve)

Published on September 21, 2007

Israeli singer songwriter Avigail Cohen expresses universal hopes and doubts in 'Erev Rosh Hashana': "There's a last ray of sunlight, the fading year is disappearing in the dim light. What will the New Year bring with it? The darkness spreads a scent of hope."

Black Eyed Peas and the Commitments rock the walls of Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg
Published on September 20, 2007

"We're missing the MTV Awards for this because we feel it's a very important 'cause ... this is the Holy Land," said Fergie. It was the Black Eyed Peas' second concert in Israel, having performed in Tel Aviv last summer. But it was their first time performing in Jerusalem, where they headlined Jerusalem Rocks! a nonprofit international music festival celebrating peace and unity.

MUSIC VIDEO: Michelle Citron—‘I Gotta’ Love You Rosh Hashanah’

Published on September 7, 2007

A musical New Year's greeting from the Rosh HaShanah Girl and Taglit-birthright-israel

MUSIC VIDEO: Mickey Katz—‘The Ballad of Duvid Crockett’

By The Web Guy
Published on August 16, 2007

Everyone knows the legend of American pioneer 'Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.' Far fewer know the exploits of 'Duvid Crockett, King of Delancey Street.' You shouldn't worry, Duvid's life and times were immortalized in this Yinglish song by the great Mickey Katz.

Hava Nagila: Funny, you don’t look Jewish

By JewishJournal.com
Published on August 5, 2007

MUSIC VIDEO: Moishe Skier Band—‘Baruch haShem’

Published on August 3, 2007

It's Police-style power reggae as the Moshe Skier Band rocks 'Baruch HaShem'

MUSIC VIDEO: Cockney Melody, Yiddish Ditty (British home movie)

Published on July 26, 2007

MUSIC VIDEO: Cockney Melody, Yiddish Ditty (British home movie) 43 secs.

MUSIC VIDEO: ‘Yankee Doodle’ played with a Yiddish accent

Published on June 29, 2007

Veretski Pass (http://veretskipass.com) play Yankee Doodle Dandy at one of their workshops -- first straight, then in a Jewish hosidl style, then in a Ukranian kolomeyke style.

Socalled music, mythic characters, legal pugilism, Kirk again, open casting call

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on June 7, 2007

Picks and Clicks

MUSIC VIDEO: HaDag Nachash—‘The Sticker Song’

Published on May 3, 2007

Snake Fish in hit Israeli music video 'The Sticker Song' now with English subtitles