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Benzion Hakohen "Benny" Friedman (Hebrew: בנציון הכהן פרידמן; born 1984) [1] is an American Hasidic Jewish singer and a non-pulpit rabbi.Professionally trained in voice, he rose to prominence on the Orthodox pop scene with his first album in 2009.
Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men is a Jewish American children's educational entertainment group based in New York City, featured in audio and video releases, as well as appearing live in concert. [1] Their tapes, CDs and videos are sold in most Jewish music and Judaica stores.
Mordechai Shapiro was born on December 9, 1989 in Monsey, New York.His father was a chazzan and his mother had a background as a trained opera singer. Growing up in a Modern Orthodox household, he attended The Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland for grade school, and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy for high school.
Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Hesselberg, 1901–1981), actor, won all three of the entertainment industry's highest awards (two Oscars, a Tony, and an Emmy) [519] [520] Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg , 1902–1975), comedian and actor ( Three Stooges ) [ 517 ]
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
Alma Cogan (born Alma Angela Cohen Cogan, 1932–1966) was a Russian Jewish-Romanian Jewish singer in the 1950s and early 1960s; the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
In existence from 1975 to 1983, the band infused rock and bluegrass music with Jewish lyrics, creating a style of music it called "Chassidic rock" [1] or "Country and Eastern". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The band had an international following, having become famous after winning three Israel Chassidic Festivals, in 1977, 1978, and 1980 and produced many hit ...
Ohad Moskowitz (born September 2, 1974), [1] known professionally as Ohad, is a Belgian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish vocalist who is one of the superstars of the contemporary Jewish religious music scene. He rose to international stardom in 2003 with his first solo album, Vearastich, produced by Yossi Green.