To mark the upcoming start of Passover, we hear music by Max Bruch, based on Hebrew melodies. It's music for cello and orchestra called "Kol Nidrei." The cellist in our performance is Mischa Maisky, ...

The text that begins the Yom Kippur service is a mystery. When did Kol Nidrei enter the liturgy? Who composed it? What community first adopted it? No one has definitively answered these questions.

The age-old adage goes for cellists Mischa Maisky and Chang Han-na this fall. The two cellists, who were once teacher and pupil, are to visit Korea with their respective tour programs. In October, ...

In a shiur he delivered more than 30 years ago, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (the Rav) spoke of the history and meaning of Kol Nidrei, which begins the communal prayer of Yom Kippur. While some of the ...