Mike Greenberg & The Kol Yehudim Show

"The Maven of Morning Mishegos." Jewish Music from the Classics to the Cutting Edge.

Mike Greenberg's radio career started with a simple realization: accounting really wasn't his thing. While studying accounting at SUNY New Paltz, Mike found his way to the college radio station, WRNP, and quickly discovered where he belonged. He transferred to Nassau Community College on Long Island, where he became a daytime air personality at WHPC, then joined Hofstra University's award-winning WRHU, where he learned what he calls the "art of broadcasting" from legendary GM Jeffrey Kraus ZT"L. Mike eventually transferred to SUNY Buffalo State, where he joined WBNY and hosted the Friday Morning Breakfast Club.

After college, radio came calling with a few full-time opportunities, including one at a country station in Sioux City, Iowa. Mike decided that moving to Iowa to play country music was perhaps not his calling, and began a career in education, teaching in several New York City elementary schools, where his radio training turned out to be surprisingly useful. He is set to retire after 32 years.

Fast-forward to 2016. Now living in Highland Park, New Jersey, Mike approached longtime Jewish broadcaster Al "Leibedik Al" Gordon, owner and operator of WJPR 1640 AM, with an idea for a Jewish music program that would be a little different: one seamless broadcast where all Jewish musical traditions meet, inspired in part by legendary New York Jewish broadcaster Art Raymond Z"L and his Sunday Simcha on WEVD. Al gave it the thumbs-up, and Kol Yehudim was born, debuting on the Sunday following Shabbat Nachamu in 2016 on 1640 WJPR.

The concept was simple: Jewish music is a pretty big tent, so why limit it to one style? Kol Yehudim brings together Israeli, Jewish Contemporary American, Chazzanut, Yiddish, Sephardi and Ladino, liturgical, folk, and other Jewish music, all on the same show. Depending on how it is written in Hebrew, the name can be understood as "All of the Jewish People" or "The Voices of the Jewish People." Both work.

In 2021, WBNY 91.3 FM at SUNY Buffalo State, the very station where Mike started his college radio career, invited Kol Yehudim to broadcast throughout Buffalo and Western New York, the first Jewish radio broadcast in Buffalo since the early 1960s. Today Kol Yehudim is heard on 1640wjpr.com (broadcasting online from South Florida), on 91.3 WBNY in Buffalo (wbny.org and the Radio FX app), and around the clock on My Jewish Radio's own 61.3 MJR BH online stream.

Our guests

Over the years, Mike has shared the mic with artists from every corner of the Jewish music world: cantorial masters, Chassidic bands, Israeli stars, Ladino voices and more. Browse the artist directory to meet them.