Director Roberta Grossman talks about her new film, which traces the evolution of the song that everybody knows — but nobody knows much about... Film Hoists 'Hava Nagila' Up Onto A Chair, In ...

You’d expect a movie about a song that has become the Hebrew “Hokey Pokey” to be playful. And “Hava Nagila (The Movie)” is that, in spades. That wedding, party and bar mitzvah staple, a song that the ...

In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, we thought it might be fun to post three Yiddish versions of well-known Israeli songs that became popular among Holocaust survivors and other ...

“Hava Nagila” is the typical soundtrack to Jewish weddings and b’nai mitzvah — and, these days, brutal hand-to-hand fighting with naked combatants. Two streaming shows have recently picked up where ...

(JTA) — The latest single by Nissim Black, a pathbreaking Orthodox hip-hop artist, reimagines what may be the mostly widely known Jewish song. “The Hava Song,” released on Black’s 34th birthday ...

The beloved Jewish folk song, which is about a century old, is appearing more and more at sporting events, private parties and trendy bars. By Alyson Krueger On a Monday afternoon in May, “Hava Nagila ...