Alexander Gelfand
National News
- G.A.’s Savior Is the Russian Oligarch ‘Who Got Away’
- Yuri Foreman: Future Rabbi, Present World Champion
- Visa Issues Lead to a Shortage of Religious Staffers
Community News
- Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues
- Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison
- Sy Syms, Retail Magnate and Y.U. Benefactor, Dies at 83
International News
- Funding for Overseas Jews In Disarray as Agencies Duel
- Perfect Storm: Wide Gaps, Weak Leaders, Elusive Peace
- The Life, Death and Judaica of a Russian Oligarch
Israel News
- Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
- Were Israelis Banned From Komen’s Egyptian Cancer Meeting?
- Amid Growing Crisis, U.S. Asks Israel for Action To Boost Abbas
Arts & Culture
- Darwin and Gods — for Kids
- Pannonica
- Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
- Mahmoud Darwish: If He Were Another
- Internet: The Hatred Super-Highway
- How, Why, Who Hates Us
Fast Forward
- Building Identity Through Art
- An Honest Marriage of Vermont and Judaism
- Where ‘Love’ First Appears
- Dirty Sayings Never Get Old
- Two-Way Giving
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
The Shmooze
- A New Yad for the Bar-Mitzvah Set
- Vienna Event Misplaces the ‘Hatikvah’
- Costco Gets Into the Torah Business
- Sir Ian Knows What It’s Like
- Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer
- MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
Forward Forum
- An American Yom Tov
- The Wages of Liberal Guilt
- Trying Terrorists
- A Time for Counting
- Freezing Progess, Not Settlements
- Missing the Abu Mazen Opportunity
Editorial
Art Pop Indie Rock Meets Midrash
By Alexander Gelfand
Everything Old is New Again
By Alexander Gelfand
Piano Man
By Alexander Gelfand
Following a Musical Silk Road to Central Asia
By Alexander Gelfand
A series of happy accidents. That, in a nutshell, is how 32-year-old saxophonist and scholar Evan Rapport describes the arc of his career — a career that began in the nightclubs of Maryland and ultimately carried him to the Bukharian Jewish enclaves of New York City.Read More
Bending Traditions in Ghana
By Alexander Gelfand
- Chance Meeting Yields Harmonious Collaboration
- A Jewish Pop Band Worth the Wait
- Horn of Plenty
- Listening In to the Field of Jewish Pop, High and Low
- A Melody of Jewish Meditation
- Songbook Recaptures Lost Melodies
- Symposium Seeks To Save Yiddish Dance
- A Tale of Three Cities: Sephardic Music From New York, Amsterdam and London
- A Musical Midrashist
- Israel’s Jazz Messengers
- Lenny Bruce’s Mild-Mannered Heirs
- The Jewish Gypsy
- The Anti-‘Fiddler’
- Setting Celan To Music
- Whither Klezmer?
- She’s Still Got the Beat
- Singer, Sung
- A Perfect Pairing Of Worker and Work
- Writing the Book on Klezmer
- Culinary Adventures
- Lyrics Sparkle in Yiddish ‘Pirates of Penzance’
- A Cantor’s Tale
- The Restless Opera Company
- Blitzkrieg Flop
- Hip Hop as Conflict Resolution
- Making Old Music Seem Very New Again
- Remembering How the Yiddish Theater Turned Into Broadway
- A Mosaic of Jewish Music in America
- Folk or Not, Sephardic Music for the Ages
- A Gem Among Giants
- From a Popular Composer, More Than Meets the Ear
- Trying To Make Sephardic Music as Hip as Klezmer
- One Man Chronicles Centuries of Synagogue Music
- Interfaith Music Hits Disparate Notes
- Exploring Latin Music, In and Out of the Ivory Tower
- Rashanim Offers a Series of Surprises
- Beyond Klezmer: Jewish Music Today
- Two Albums Offer Gems of Gypsy Melodies
- Klezmer via Kingston
- Tango: Not Jewish, But Not 100% Not Jewish
- ‘Chassidic’ Jazzman Strives for Authenticity
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