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.

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 ...

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 ...

According to Matthew Miller, aka Matisyahu, listening entails more than simply owning a pair of fully functioning ears. “The concept of listening is the concept of giving yourself over to something,” ...

HUDSON, N.Y. -- What's in a beard? For Hassidic Jews whose observance calls for a uniform outward appearance, including hat and long beard for men, the bushy, black beard of unlikely reggae hero ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hasidic Jewish reggae musician Matthew Paul Miller, better known by his Hebrew name Matisyahu, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles ...

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,” ...

Young Israelis sporting dreadlocks and wool Rastafarian caps rocked to the beat of homegrown Hebrew reggae bands at a recent music festival, a sign of reggae’s steadily increasing popularity here.

After being thrown out of festivals, dropped by his manager and railed against by anti-Israel mobs, reggae star Matisyahu says the backlash over his support for the Jewish state hasn’t slowed him down ...