Debbie Friedman and the value of religious popular music | Keith Kahn-Harris

Friedman's songs helped to democratise at least one stream of Judaism, but such music may put off as many as it attractsIt was something of a Diana moment: an outpouring of grief and emotion that was unexpected as the death itself. The death on 9 January of American Jewish singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman, at the age of 59, has touched whole swaths of the English-speaking progressive Jewish world: the web buzzes with tributes and 7,000 people watched a webcast of her memorial service.Of course ...

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