Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of ex-Hasidic reggae singer Matisyahu at home in Piermont, NY holding a microphone and candles, photo by Michael Falco.

Following a barrage of criticism, organizers of an international reggae festival in Spain backtracked Wednesday and apologized for cancelling a concert by Jewish-American singer Matisyahu because he ...

Hasidic Jewish reggae musician Matthew Paul Miller, better known by his Hebrew name Matisyahu, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles June 16, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni By Adrian Croft MADRID (Reuters) ...

In February, a school nurse phoned Matthew Paul Miller, the Jewish reggae singer and rapper who plays under his Hebrew name, Matisyahu, with bad news. His three boys had lice. Again. Matisyahu has ...

Despite rainy skies Saturday evening, Yale students gathered under the warm and smoky lights of the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church, swaying in time with the songs of Jewish reggae ...

The Jewish reggae star known as Matisyahu has taken to X, formerly Twitter, to express his dissatisfaction after two of his shows were canceled following aggressive campaigns by anti-Israel and ...

How about something different this year for Hanukkah? How about some reggae? That’s what you’ll get with “Festival of Lights,” the creation of David Solid Gould, a Jewish bassist who recorded it with ...

When a friend told me that Matisyahu, a Jewish reggae rapper who kicks it Old-Testament style, was performing at the Pabst Theatre, I knew I had to check it out. When a friend told me that Matisyahu, ...

At a music festival that included the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kanye West, Tool and even Madonna, a Hasidic Jewish reggae singer was arguably one of the most popular acts on the bill. Matisyahu, aka Matthew ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Fans of a Jewish reggae star from Westchester got quite the shock Tuesday morning. Matisyahu shaved off his signature beard and payos. "No more Chassidic reggae superstar," he ...

In 1997, writer, producer and performer Michael Goldwasser founded reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars, and has since then released half a dozen albums with names like “Dub Side of the Moon,” ...