When the Jewish people crossed the Red Sea, successfully escaping the clutches of the Egyptians, Moses gathered the Israelites together and they sang the famous “Az Yashir.” Miriam, Moses’s sister, ...

“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, ...

Ari Sussman grew up in a Jewish congregation in Elkins Park, attended a Jewish high school, and — every year — went to Jewish summer camp in the Poconos, where he eventually became music director. One ...

The orchestral music has a lively, jumping beat, with some passages that sound as if they came right out of a lush film score, while Nathan Lam’s rich baritone weaves in and out. One is sometimes ...

Several years ago, I went through a long, nearly immobilizing depression. At some point during that time, I made a playlist I called “Morning,” with the hope that it would ...