My 5-year-old thinks “My Yiddishe Mama,” the soulful ballad immortalized by Sophie Tucker in 1928, is a rock anthem. The version he learned didn’t come from a dusty old record, but from a CD released ...

"My Yiddishe Momme" is track #6 from new released CD IN MY CORNER. The Album is jazz - anyway you look at it. This track is known popular song that was arranged differently by Vlad West and included ...

A recently released music video weaves together the classic Yiddish hit “Mein Yiddishe Mame” (“My Jewish Mother”) with a modern hip-hop tribute to a more contemporary Jewish mother. In its first two ...

Often when I hear carolers singing, my inner ear segues into “My Yiddishe Mamma.” A schmaltz pop song of the 1920s, it was part of a Christmas Eve service on a World War II battlefield. Unlikely as ...

Shelley Winters, who died Jan. 14, was honored with a gathering Monday in the Sherry Lansing Theater at Paramount. Sally Kirkland emceed the two-hour program in which Shelley was described in every ...

Yesterday, I got three messages from my mother, a long distance Jewish mother joke from my brother in London ("A homeless man approaches a Jewish mother on the street. ‘Lady, I haven’t eaten in three ...

Since 1977, when I sat riveted every night for a week in front of my TV, I have had "Roots" envy. Even if scholars remain deeply skeptical about his methodology, Alex Haley went to his grave believing ...