Music

Building bridges through music: Hanna Yaffe’s life of faith and dialogue

Singer and storyteller Hanna Yaffe blends Orthodox faith, music, and interfaith dialogue to build bridges across cultures and beliefs.

Hanna Yaffe sings and plays guitar.
The Michael Greilsammer Trio.

The alchemist of the strings: Michael Greilsammer returns to Jerusalem

SHIR, the Australian Jewish Music Festival, outside the Sydney Opera House.

Jewish musical group performs song in Hebrew in historic Australia Day concert in Sydney

FORMER HOSTAGE Daniella Gilboa previews her new song in an Instagram post, January 25, 2026.

Former Hamas hostage shares preview of new song one year after release from captivity


Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra

The Revolution Orchestra turns toward Bach in a joyful new season blurring the lines between reverence and play.

THE REVOLUTION Orchestra’s Roy Oppenheim (bottom) and Zohar Sharon.

Gilad Hazan’s stratified Arabic music offering captivates at Oud Festival

Gilad Hazan wowed the Confederation House audience with his electrifying instrumental skills and crosscultural-influenced scores.

GILAD HAZAN

Jeryko to ‘break down walls with sound’ in global Israel premieres - preview

Yaniv Hoffman kicks off his tour on November 16 at Gray in Tel Aviv, followed by a November 17 Jerusalem show, anchoring a broader run that includes major venues such as New York City’s Irving Plaza.

Jeryko  kicks off his tour on November 16 at Gray in Tel Aviv.

My Word: Making music amid the noise - opinion

The ideals of Koolulam, “a social-musical initiative aimed at strengthening the fabric of society,” sound lofty but the events are fun and unifying.

 The entrance to the Jerusalem Theatre is seen in a photo taken May 21, 2024

Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable

With 97% of listeners unable to tell AI from human-made tracks, Deezer warns of ethical and economic implications for artists and the global music market.

 A robot band perform at world's first embodied intelligent robot 4S store on August 06, 2025 in Beijing, China.

OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says

The court in Munich found that ChatGPT was developed and trained on content from nine German songs.

 OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024

Jewish and Muslim comedians team up to turn tension into titters

"Comedy for Peace," an interfaith project founded by Israeli comedian Erik Angel, brings Jewish, Muslim, and Christian comics together to promote tolerance and unity through laughter.

Comedians Gibran Saleem, left, and Erik Angel, right, are part of the Comedy 4 Peace project, which promotes religious tolerance among Jews, Muslims, and Christians through humor.

From India and the world with love: The superb offerings at the Jerusalem Oud Festival

This year’s Jerusalem International Oud Festival offers a broad sweep of ethnic and other music genres for our listening uplifting entertainment.

Chitravina N. Ravikiran plays the chitravina, one of the lesser-known Indian string instruments.

Report: OpenAI is developing a tool for creating music based on text and audio

OpenAI is developing a tool that will allow the creation of music from text or voice, in collaboration with students from a prestigious music school in New York

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Judaism with a twang: Texan Joe Buchanan finds the common themes binding country music and Torah

To Buchanan, country music and the Torah have a lot in common – the sin, the redemption, the deception, and the heartbreak.

JOE BUCHANAN, flanked by Israeli and American flags, in his home musical workshop in Houston, Texas.