In the battle for the No. 1 Christmas hit on the United Kingdom’s charts this season, rising British pop star Lauren Rose is being given an outside chance at outdoing challengers not with renditions ...

You may not know all the words to the Jewish staple "Hava Nagila," but you probably know the tune. Roberta Grossman wants to show the unlikely... I grew up on "Hava Nagila," and I'll admit it's not ...

The beauty of downtown’s Museum of Jewish Heritage is that it is of a piece. To get to its newest exhibit, “Hava Nagila: A Song of the People,” wander through other rooms: Ukrainian shtetl life, old ...

Played by lead guitarist Brian May, the little folk tune that Jews dance to in circles at weddings sounded epic. The greatest Jewish moment of the Queen+Adam Lambert concert came from the most ...

We all know the song. We've all seen the dance it inspires - at weddings and bar mitzvahs, either in person or in movie and television. But just what is "Hava Nagila," where did it come from and what ...

Whether you love it or you hate it, you know it: "Hava Nagila." Maybe you grew up listening to Harry Belafonte's rendition, or found yourself in a chair being hoisted into the air by a singing crowd ...

I grew up on "Hava Nagila," and I'll admit it's not the catchiest of tunes. The ingenuous Hebrew lyrics ("Come! Let us rejoice and be happy!") don't wear well in our age of knowing irony and ennui.