JTA — A frontrunner on the latest season of “Rising Star,” the Israeli talent show, has advanced on the basis of her renditions of an iconic Israeli song that includes words from the Shema prayer, the ...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Thousands gathered in the holy city’s Manger Square late Saturday night to watch one of their own win the “Arab Idol” song contest, the wildly popular ratings monster that ...
Recorded more than 50 years ago by the Arab Christian soprano Fairuz, ‘Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs’ is one of the greatest yet least-known, certainly in the West, popular religious recordings of ...
Valerie Hamaty’s success has ignited debate among Arab and Jewish Israelis alike about what it would mean for her to head to Basel in May. A frontrunner on the latest season of “Rising Star,” the ...