Jewish Journal

With shruti boxes and drums, practitioners chanting their way into Judaism

In a darkened room at a synagogue affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, 20 women gather by candlelight for Rabbi Shefa Gold’s monthly Jewish chant circle. As a shruti box drones and a hand drum ...
Jewish Journal

Black Hebrew Israelites Chant “We Are the Real Jews” in Support of Kyrie Irving

Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites demonstrate outside the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) A group of Black Hebrew Israelite protesters can ...
Seven Days

Kirtan Rabbi Brings Chant to Ohavi Zedek

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 ...
Long Island Press

Twenty Two Years Of Students Chanting The ‘Gantze Megilla’ At North Shore Hebrew Academy

Twenty-eight Middle School students of Great Neck’s North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA) – both Ashkenazic and Sephardic – joined together, on Purim Day, to chant the “Gantze Megillah,” (Scroll of Esther ...
The Jewish Exponent

The Shema

I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...
JSTOR Daily

The Jewish Sound of Speech: Talmudic Chant, Yiddish Intonation and the Origins of Early Ashkenaz

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...