Rabbi Shefa Gold thought she was inventing the practice of Hebrew chant back in the 1980s. Before entering rabbinical school late in that decade she had been a musician fascinated by the power of ...

At a prayer service at B’nai Jeshurun, a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Rabbi Andrew Hahn chants the Sh’ma, the most important prayer in Jewish daily worship. A video clip shows him holding ...

People twirl ecstatically, eyes closed, repeating, in a call-and-response fashion, chants led by Rabbi Andrew Hahn, who plays a harmonium while others play guitars and percussion instruments — ...