About 30 people meet weekly on Monday nights for the Israeli dance group at the Starlight Ballroom Dance Studio in Metairie. This is a picture from their Halloween celebration. (Courtesy of Elliott ...

Mayim, mayim, mayim, mayim. Brazil is not usually considered to be one of the worldwide centers of cultural Jewish life. But the country recently hosted what is believed to be the largest Jewish dance ...

Some Israeli folk dances are based on musical traditions from all over the world that are centuries old, but the dances also continue to evolve as today’s participants keep adding new music and new ...

Danny Pollock's interest in Israeli folk dance blossomed in childhood. At age 10, he would sit patiently as his mother took lessons, observing her movements. Then one day as he sat watching, the ...

Sunday January 28th, 2-4pm at the Nevada County Jewish Community Center (NCJCC), an afternoon of Israeli circle dance. Join us to dance traditional and new Israeli dances. Gather in the spirit of ...

If you haven't thought about Israeli dance since the last time you stumbled through a hora at a Jewish wedding, it's time to take another look. In the Washington area, you can find folk dance -- which ...

Israel Independence Day, known in Hebrew as Yom Ha’atzmaut, honors the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948. On midnight of May 14 of that year, the country's founders read aloud and signed the ...

The hora is running on fumes. Go to any bar mitzvah or Jewish wedding, and sure, you’ll still find folks doing that primordial party dance. Some are kicking up a storm, faces glistening with glee (and ...

What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...

The chancellor will apologize to Yael Nativ and re-hire her to settle a lawsuit she filed after she was denied a job in ...

8:47 a.m. Oct. 17, 2023: An earlier version of this article implied that Israel has controlled the Gaza Strip. Israel has controlled its border with Gaza, but not the territory itself. Kobi Danan’s ...

Yael Nativ’s application to return as a dance professor was rejected after the department chair told her ‘things are very hot ...