Woodstock, but Orthodox: Jewish music festival comes to the Catskills

An Orthodox Jewish music festival will take place in Bethel, New York on Aug. 7 - at the very same location where the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place in August 1969.

Called Yamim Ba'im, or "The Coming Days," the four-act, family-friendly outdoor concert will occur at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Thursday, August 7.

The venue, whose Pavilion Amphitheater and lawn seats 16,000, will host some of the biggest names in Jewish music, with Orthodox Israeli superstar Ishay Ribo as the headliner with Avraham Fried, Zusha and Shmuel as supporting acts.

Despite the history that ha...