The world of Hasidic music is mourning the untimely passing of singer-songwriter 62-year-old Michoel Shnitzler, a 35-year veteran of the stage and studio. Beginning in the year 2000, Shnitzler went on ...

Hasidic Yiddish songwriter-singer Motty Ilowitz has never shied away from writing songs that don’t fit the Haredi mold. In his latest one, “Mochel” — which translates to “Forgive Me” — he tells the ...

A remarkable new album of traditional Hasidic nigunim, wordless melodies, is here. And it’s giving listeners a taste of the soulful, unadorned way in which rebbes used to sing them in pre-war Eastern ...