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Baruch Levine (born December 28, 1977) is a Canadian-born American Orthodox Jewish composer and singer. His tunes have gained wide popularity at Shabbat tables and kumzits gatherings. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of his most successful compositions is " Vezakeini " (Give Us Merit), derived from the ancient prayer recited at Shabbat candle lighting.
Friedman was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father, Rabbi Manis Friedman, was a Chabad shaliach. [2] [1] His uncle (his father's brother) is Orthodox Jewish singing star Avraham Fried; he is also the first-cousin of Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus (sons of his father's sister Ita) of the band 8th Day.
Ohad Moskowitz (born September 2, 1974), [1] known professionally as Ohad, is a Belgian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish vocalist who is one of the superstars of the contemporary Jewish religious music scene. He rose to international stardom in 2003 with his first solo album, Vearastich, produced by Yossi Green.
Fascinating photos from a traditional Orthodox Jewish wedding showcase the religion's unique and ultra-Orthodox traditions. The wedding was a huge spectacle with the groom being a grandson of a ...
The video, a parody of Mike Tompkins' a cappella music video for "Dynamite", [1] [8] was intended for the group's target audience in the New York Orthodox Jewish community [3] [7] but it quickly went viral, being viewed more than 2 million times in ten days. [2] [4] As of December 2018, it had logged more than 14 million views. [9]
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.
After his wedding, Schmeltzer tried to find work as a badchen (entertainer) for weddings. [6] Though he had no formal musical training, [7] he began performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs in the Haredi Hasidic communities of upstate New York and Brooklyn. He earned a reputation as a natural performer, and began releasing recordings and videos. [3]
Within the traditional Jewish community, cantoral and chasiddic melodies were the musical standard.. In the 1950s and early 1960s recordings began to be made of non-cantorial Jewish music, beginning with Ben Zion Shenker's recording of the music of the Modzitz chassidic sect [2] and Cantor David Werdyger's Gerrer recordings.