Ricky Ian Gordon:  Winter Moon

Ricky Ian Gordon: Winter Moon

NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season.  With a text by Langston Hughes, this song depicts a winter moon as a thin crescent, a rationed portion of a moon for a season when resources grow...
Irving Berlin: White Christmas

Irving Berlin: White Christmas

Happy Friday everyone! It’s my last day as your tour guide, and since I’ve been in rehearsals for two separate Christmas shows, I figured I would end with a Christmas song. Not only is the song one of my favorite holiday tunes, but it’s also the best-selling single of...
“Kol Nidrei” sung by Johnny Mathis

“Kol Nidrei” sung by Johnny Mathis

This most iconic and instantly recognizable sacred Jewish song has had a lot of treatments over the many centuries it’s been around. While the Aramaic lyrics are quite a mouthful even for a native Hebrew speaker, a surprising number of mainstream pop singers...
Carrie Newcomer:  If Not Now

Carrie Newcomer: If Not Now

One of my resolutions this year is to think more about the “other”—the other person, the other point of view, the other side of the world. As you might imagine, Judaism has a lot to say about it. The great rabbi Hillel, who lived in the earliest days of...