We want to celebrate Jewish culture and its richness, bring the community together and uplift it.”– Jacqueline Rafii ...

I came up being into punk rock and folk music, and [Hebrew school] was very preppy and sports-oriented, so I always felt that kind of estrangement from the Jewish community as I knew it.” ...

Born May 31, 1938, to Jewish Ukrainian parents in New York, Yarrow was raised in an upper-middle-class family that he said placed a high value on art and scholarship. He took violin lessons as a child ...

The URJ’s Kutz Camp, known for being the birthplace of modern spiritual Jewish folk music, celebrates its 50th anniversary this Fourth of July weekend. Hundreds of Kutz alumni will join Union ...

You don’t need to be a media junkie to know these are challenging times for Israel in the global arena, as if we didn’t have enough ongoing existential threats right here at home. There are ...

Iâ m Jewish. Iâ m not particularly religious ... I make the beats and put them up on an mp3 player and plug it in and sing over it. Why do you think folk and folk-punk music is becoming so popular ...

Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done." ...