Your wedding or bar/bat mitzvah party may have featured the finest smoked fish platters, raucous klezmer, and exuberant dancing your town had to offer, but it probably didn’t feel complete until Hava ...
“Play ‘Hava Nagila’!” shouted a man sitting in the front row at the concert “Havana Nagila”, the Jewish/Latin mashup the Klezmatics presented March 23 at New York’s Town Hall. The request startled ...
The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody. If there is one Jewish song known by Jews and non-Jews alike, it is undoubtedly Hava Nagila (הבה נגילה), which is Hebrew for “let us rejoice.” From its ...
Go-go dancing to “Hava Nagila”? Singing an ode to gefilte fish? Bumping and grinding to klezmer music? The Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad show is enough to make a bubbe (that’s Yiddish for grandma) plotz.