A remarkable new album of traditional Hasidic nigunim, wordless melodies, is here. And it’s giving listeners a taste of the soulful, unadorned way in which rebbes used to sing them in pre-war Eastern ...

There’s a powerful sense of the spiritual and sacred in the songs of “Kapelya,” a new full-length album of Hasidic melodies. There’s also a bit more than a tinge of subversiveness lurking in the LP, ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...