An ancient Jewish parody that quotes the New Testament's Gospel of Matthew may refute a major argument by biblical scholars who challenge the credibility of the Bible. For more than a century, liberal ...

Joshua Nelson doesn’t want to hear the Sammy Davis Jr. jokes. He’s heard them all. “I actually used to get offended by them. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re a black Jew, just like Sammy Davis, right?’ ” ...

A partial list of artists who have worked with the Klezmatics gives a good idea of the band’s open-minded attitude and versatility: Itzhak Perlman, Arlo Guthrie, Morocco’s Master Musicians of Jajouka, ...

American gospel singer and Hebrew teacher Joshua Nelson (known as the Prince of Kosher Gospel) leads the Kosher Gospel Singers at a tribute to Mahalia Jackson at Central Park SummerStage, New York, ...

The rabbi’s e-mail inquiry to the black pastor last spring was blunt: How crazy would it be to start a Jewish gospel choir? And would you help? Soon after, the Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of ...

We’ve all heard of kosher food prepared according to Jewish law. But Jewish, New Jersey-based musician Joshua Nelson adds a little soul food to the kosher menu. And his homemade kosher gospel is ...

Karen Hart performs at The Mint in West Los Angeles. Photo via Karen Hart/Facebook. Growing up in Norfolk, Va., in a Conservative Jewish home, singer-songwriter Karen Hart was intrigued by how the ...

Big Brother Rabin: From her home on Kibbutz Manara in the Galilee, Yitzhak Rabin’s sister, Rachel, recalls in Haaretz the siblings’ Tel Aviv upbringing, the children of a “tempestuous revolutionary” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob Dylan gives his first concert in Israel in 1987 in Tel Aviv, playing with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. AP Photo/Anat Givon ...

It is odd that in a media-saturated time when people seem unable to remember important events that happened last week, much less the decades-long story of how we got into the economic and political ...