A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of Crown ...

A remarkable new album of traditional Hasidic nigunim, wordless melodies, is here. And it’s giving listeners a taste of the soulful, unadorned way in which rebbes used to sing them in pre-war Eastern ...

Similarly, the Chabad nigunim Nigun Gaaguim" and Vehacoahim" are presented as introspective ballads—the ensemble finding space within these traditional forms for personal expression while honoring ...

(JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad hasidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Chana Raskin was immersed in a male soundscape. Her father brought her with him to synagogue on Shabbat and ...

The often wordless songs are traditionally sung exclusively by men, and are central to the synagogue experience — itself a primarily male domain in the Orthodox tradition. As a child growing up in the ...