Hasidic music is often wordless. Like jazz scat singing, Hasidic song uses otherwise meaningless syllables, such as "aha ha" or "yam bam" or, for a sad song, the traditional lament "oy vey," to ...

He answered questions about what many of his fans are most interested in: how he entered the music world as a Hasidic Jew and how he eventually left the Chabad Hasidic community. Here are five ...

There is a lively recording business for Hasidic music, but most tapes only have the voices of Hasidic men. Some long-standing differences and tensions between certain Hasidic courts have only ...

The goal of the company was the publication, preservation and dissemination of the heritage of Jewish music, its website says. The earliest publications were collections of Hasidic songs based on ...