MOBILE, Alabama--What song do Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan and Bar and Bat Mitzvah bands all across the land have in common? Why, "Hava Nagila," of course. Belafonte's 1959 Carnegie Hall performance of ...

I have a confession: I do not like the hora. Circle dancing is bad (sorry), and you will never be able to convince me that the chair lifting is safe. However, as a Jew, there is no escaping the hora — ...

JTA — A few years ago, Rachel Picado attended a Utah Jazz game in Salt Lake City with Israeli diplomat Eitan Na’eh, who was visiting from Los Angeles. During the closing seconds of the game, which the ...

The beauty of downtown’s Museum of Jewish Heritage is that it is of a piece. To get to its newest exhibit, “Hava Nagila: A Song of the People,” wander through other rooms: Ukrainian shtetl life, old ...

One day, in the summer of 2008, the question “‘Hava Nagila’ — what is it?” popped into Roberta Grossman’s head. Although she was familiar with the ubiquitous song, she was clueless about its origins.

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center “Hava Nagila,” that beloved, hackneyed Hebrew song that’s ...