It doesn’t matter who’s singing it, how it’s being sung or when, the Randy Sparks song “Today” gets me every time. That song -- with its simple lyrics about strawberries and sweet wine and a shared ...

Marcia Falk is best known as a modern maker of richly innovative Jewish prayers as collected in “The Book of Blessings,” which was described by poet Adrienne Rich as the meeting of “the scholar’s mind ...

Benedictions and blessings are an integral part of Jewish culture. Expressions like barukh ha-Shem and tavo alav ha- b’rakhah are heard often in Jewish circles. Let us explore the root of the word ...

Pink’s 10-year-old daughter, Willow Sage Hart, showed off her beautiful singing voice in a recent Instagram video. The mother and daughter sang a traditional candle blessing song in Hebrew as they lit ...

"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground!" Or, as it goes in the original Yiddish: "Zolst vaksn vi a tzibele mitn kop in dr'erd!" That's just one of the colorful curses to be found in ...

The springtime Jewish holiday of Purim isn’t just any other occasion to have a good time; having fun and merrymaking is actually a commandment each year. Because the holiday commemorates the Jewish ...

"I don't remember writing the lyrics to that song." Those were the startling words of Ira B. Wilson to his friends. He held that position until his death, yet his song, "Make Me a Blessing," lives on ...