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The Reform Jewish summer camps continue to be a source of contemporary Jewish worship music, where artists like Craig Taubman, [14] Dan Nichols, [15] Rick Recht, [16] Josh Nelson, [17] Alan Goodis and others have shared their newest compositions with the latest generation of campers. Nichols and Recht are among the leading Jewish rock singers ...
A notable tradition in the Talmud, attributed to Rabbi Yochanan, [12] stated that Rabbi Nehemia, a younger contemporary of Rabbi Akiva, was the author of the anonymous traditions in the Tosefta. [13] According to another passage in the Talmud, [14] the Tosefta was redacted by Ḥiya bar Abba and one of his students, Hoshaiah. [15]
The Living Torah [3] is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. It was and remains a highly popular translation, [4] and was reissued in a Hebrew-English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations: Make it clear and ...
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Sefaria is an online open source, [1] free content, digital library of Jewish texts. It was founded in 2011 by former Google project manager Brett Lockspeiser and journalist-author Joshua Foer . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Promoted as a "living library of Jewish texts", Sefaria relies partially upon volunteers to add texts and translations.
The Tanakh, known in English as the Hebrew Bible, has the same contents as the Old Testament in Christianity. In addition to the original written scripture, the supplemental Oral Torah is represented by later texts, such as the Midrash and the Talmud .
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
He was featured at the HASC 27 "A Time for Music" concert on January 12, 2013. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On Lag B'omer 2020, he was one of many singers to perform in the "Hatzalah-thon" fundraiser, created to raise money for Hatzalah and in honor of the completion of the "Miracle Sefer Torah ," which was written as a merit for those sick with COVID-19 ...