13 Facts About Yehuda Green

Yehuda Green, born 1959, is a Hasidic Jewish singer and composer, and hazzan at the Carlebach Shul on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Yehuda Green was born in the Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem to a family of Breslover Hasidim.

Yehuda Green heard his first Shlomo Carlebach album when he was five years old, and was encouraged by his father to sing Carlebach's composition, "Mimkomcha", again and again.

Yehuda Green enjoyed singing Carlebach's songs at the Lubavitcher yeshiva that he attended.

In 1980 Yehuda Green attended a kumzits in Golders Yehuda Green, London, where Carlebach was performing.

Yehuda Green says he was so embarrassed that he agreed to perform only from behind a curtain.

Yehuda Green made his first recording of Carlebach songs in the early 1990s, and asked Carlebach for his opinion.

Yehuda Green released his first album, Land of Your Soul, in 2007.

Yehuda Green was the headliner at the two "Kumzits on the Hudson" concerts in 2008 and 2009.

Yehuda Green was one of over 30 Orthodox Jewish superstars appearing on the 2010 Unity for Justice album to benefit the legal defense of Sholom Rubashkin.

Yehuda Green was a featured singer at the HASC 22 "A Time for Music" concert in 2009.

Yehuda Green lends his talents to annual musical evenings for the elderly and special needs population in Crown Heights.

Yehuda Green became an official hazzan at that synagogue in 1998.