most moving piece...data playing while Sarek cries...Star Trek fans will understand...

The lovely chassidic music band from Tsfat, Israel performs live on stage the most beautiful holy music. During summer war of 2006, I ate Shabbat lunch with the violin player at his house with his holy family as bombs fell nearby.

The violin maestro, Itzchak Perlman, joins four klezmer groups: Brave Old World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band for a joyous get-together with unforgettable Klezmer melodies. As he says of the experience, "I caught the bug!"

Simply Tsfat, the awesome chassidic band, at the Dead Sea festival during Pesach (Passover) in Israel.

Ivry Gitlis - Bloch 'Nigun' - Baal Shem Suite. Watch this video of Gitlis as he performs the majestic Nigun (Improvisation) from Ernest Bloch's beautiful Baal Shem Suite - 3 Pictures of Chassidic Life.

Jack Gives Johnny Carson advice - originally aired in 1955 (season 6, episode 4) of the Jack Benny Program. Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894) was a contemporary of the Marx Brothers, at one point accompanying their vaudeville stage show with violin in the orchestra pit.

This niggun in violin is one of the most moving pieces of music that I have ever heard. I believe the niggun is part of the Chabad heritage now. The musician rotates from violin to vocals in such a powerful and haunting way - this is one of few audio tracks that brings tears almost every time....

One of the real unheralded songsters from Israel is Micki Rosenbaum - here with a beautiful tune with a superb flute lead. Very upbeat and sunny day tune (in Hebrew!)