Yisroel Leshes, Assistant Cantor at Lincoln Square Synagogue, has released a video of the African-American spiritual “Go Down, Moses” in Yiddish – with a jazzy twist. Leshes has previously infused ...

It’s always a thrill to help uncover important history that has been lost. I have had that pleasure lately, along with Dr. Sam Barber, a professor of mine at Ohio State during the mid-1970s. Sam, a ...

The spiritual is believed to have been written by slaves inspired by the story of the Jews' liberation from slavery in Egypt. How The African-American Spiritual 'Go Down Moses' Became Part Of Passover ...

Wrapping up its fourth annual new play reading series Brave New Works 2021: Zoom, Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre announces its third and last offering, Go Down Moses by Dana Leslie ...

Q: What do Passover, Paul Robeson, and one particular episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air all have in common? So how did this song make its way from the Underground Railroad to the seder table? Or ...

At every Seder I can remember, our family has sung “Go Down Moses” (“Go down, Moses/Way down in Egypt’s land/Tell ol’ Pharaoh/Let my people go”). As a child I loved it because it was a song in English ...