Leon Botstein is a can-do conductor eager to get a bright sound out of almost any orchestra, even the moody Jerusalem Symphony ... intensely dark-hued Jerusalem band to Royce Hall for a UCLA ...

Shlepping isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For the four guys in Shlepping Nachas, a Jerusalem-based band making quirky hassidic reggae music, being a shlepper (Yiddish, loosely translated as ...