(New York Jewish Week) — Barrier-smashing singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because of his rendition of a Hebrew ...

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96. Opinion: Harry Belafonte's voice will live on I spent a couple of years of my ...

We learned today that the singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died this morning at his home in New York City. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to a family ...

After her 2008 documentary "Blessed Is the Match," Roberta Grossman covers an even broader swath of 20th-century Jewish history in "Hava Nagila (The Movie)," albeit far more lightheartedly. Composed ...

Director Roberta Grossman talks about her new film, which traces the evolution of the song that everybody knows — but nobody knows much about... Film Hoists 'Hava Nagila' Up Onto A Chair, In ...

Barrier-smashing singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because of his rendition of a Hebrew classic, died Tuesday at his ...

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I spent a couple of years of my childhood living with my cousins, and the voice of Harry Belafonte. Or so it seemed. We had one side or the other of his two-record album "Belafonte at Carnegie Hall" ...

Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died Tuesday. He was 96. He broke racial barriers and balanced his activism with his artistry in ways that made people around the world listen.