98 posts categorized "Music"

February 14, 2013: Video: Hasidic All-Woman Rock Band Bulletproof Stockings Gets National Exposure
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Music , Women & Judaism
The Chabad hasidic all-woman rock band bulletproof stockings was featured on AOL earlier this week. Unfortunately, to meet the modesty requirements they follow, you don't really get to hear any music. You've Got Bulletproof Stockings If you want to hear...

February 3, 2013: Free Tickets To Matisyahu Concert
Comments: 19 | Categories: Music
I've got a pair of tickets to give away for the Huntington, NY show that is part of Matisyahu's Spark Seeker Acoustic Tour. Here's how you can win. Answer the following question correctly in the comments below by 5 pm...

December 28, 2012: Lipa Schmeltzer Goes To College – And He Wants You To Go, Too
Comments: 72 | Categories: Haredim , Music
“I never got an education other than biblical stuff,” reported Schmeltzer. “I called up someone in New Square and he got me a paper saying I had graduated high school.” Not surprisingly, the registrar at Rockland Community College, a two-year...

December 26, 2012: Matisyahu Talks About Crown Heights, Cutting His Beard, And How Being Hasidic Helped sell His Music
Comments: 18 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Haredim , Music
"I had moved out of Crown Heights (neighborhood of Brooklyn). I didn't want to confront the people over there. I think that most Hasidic people that I know, that I am actually friends with or that are acquaintances, all say...

December 10, 2012: Video: Y-Love Releases Pro-LGBT Video – In Yiddish
Comments: 27 | Categories: Homophobia and its Discontents , Music
"Since coming out this May, one of the major things that I have felt is an overwhelming sense of wanting to give back to the LGBT community in general and the Jewish LGBT community in particular. Spending most of my...

December 9, 2012: More Free Matisyahu Tickets
Comments: 10 | Categories: Music
I have two more free tickets to Matisyahu's December 15th New York City show. Here's how you can win… Answer the following question correctly. Before 9 pm Eastern Time Sunday December 9th, post your answer as a comment to this...

December 4, 2012: Free Matisyahu Tickets
Comments: 34 | Categories: Music
I have two free tickets to Matisyahu's Port Chester, NY show to give away. Here's how you can win… Originally published on 12-3-2012 at 2:53 pm The oldest known images of the Temple menorah found look most like which picture:...

October 22, 2012: Bulletproof Stockings
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Music
Wolfe wears shear stockings and stiletto heels when she performs, and the duo met with opposition after a suggestive photo of the women posing in front of the Lubavitch World Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn was posted...

September 1, 2012: Video: Haredi Remedial Music Education
Comments: 17 | Categories: Music
Did you grow up in Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Borough Park or Monsey thinking the music your parents let you buy in Eichler's was the be all and end all of great music? If so, have I got a video for...

July 24, 2012: Matisyahu To Perform During Tisha B'Av Fast
Comments: 74 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Music , Skepticism & Former Haredim
Matisyahu has a scheduled performance in New York City Sunday, during the Tisha B'Av fast commemorating the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Jerusalem Temples. Tisha B'Av is actually Saturday, but the fast is pushed off until Sunday because of...

July 16, 2012: Video: Springsteen And McCartney London Jam Session Abruptly Shut Down By Time Police – A Jerusalem Story Retold
Comments: 18 | Categories: Israel , Music
Bruce Springsteen finished his concert in London's Hyde Park Saturday night with a surprise jam session with former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. But before the jam session could finish, London authorities shut off the sound, allegedly because the concert had...

June 1, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Lash Out At Madonna
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Music
Madonna’s concerts in Israel are “disgraceful,” and she "desecrates" Israel's holy sites, the Israeli haredi publication HaEdah claimed this week. Haredi Rabbis Lash Out At Madonna Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Madonna’s concerts in Israel are “disgraceful,” the Israeli haredi publication...

May 4, 2012: Leaving The Rebbe For Music
Comments: 17 | Categories: Chabad , Music , Sefardim , Skepticism & Former Haredim
The music duo Wolf ‏+ Lamb duo talk about leaving Orthodoxy and finding their groove. Leaving the Rebbe for a global music career Growing up in religiously observant homes in New York, Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi were not exactly...

May 1, 2012: Ex-Hasid Death Metal Band Flourishes – In Crown Heights
Comments: 27 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Music , Skepticism & Former Haredim
It was Saturday afternoon, and all through Crown Heights, sleepy heads were nodding. But deep in the basement of a foreclosed row house on Empire Boulevard, a stone’s throw from the seat of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism from...

March 8, 2012: Matisyahu Goes Blonde
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Music
Matisyahu, the hasidic rapper with bushy beard and sidelocks who shocked fans by shaving it all off last year, has surfaced in Jerusalem with a new bottle-blonde hairdo. Matisyahu before going blonde Jewish rapper Matisyahu goes bottle blonde JERUSALEM (AFP)...

December 14, 2011: Video: Matisyahu Talks About Beard Removal On WNYC
Comments: 29 | Categories: BTs , Chabad , Haredim , Music
Matisyahu explains why he shvaed his beard, and talks about his current feelings about Judaism and about hasidism.

December 8, 2011: The John Lennon Murder In The Eyes Of A Haredi Gadol
Comments: 147 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Music
Today is the 31st yartzeit (anniversary of the murder) of John Lennon, the former Beatle who, with songwriting partner Paul McCartney, changed the face of rock and pop music. Lennon was murdered in NYC 31 years ago today, and a...

December 3, 2011: New Rubashkin Music Video
Comments: 50 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Music
The music video, Yedid Nefesh, features an original composition by Danny Finkelman performed by Bentzi Marcus of 8th Day and Dovid Dachs and shows exclusive footage from the upcoming documentary/promotional film “Rubashkin’s Game Plan” on the Rubashkin case and the...

November 17, 2011: Haredi Hip Hop Group Rocks Tel Aviv
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Music
The mostly secular crowd at Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv had a religious experience Wednesday night when the 5 piece Haredi Hip Hop band Shtar took to the stage, traditional wardrobe intact. It wasn’t long before the crowed began to...

August 24, 2011: Amy Winehouse Did Not O.D.
Comments: 16 | Categories: Music
The Winehouse family says toxicology tests given to them by authorities show no illegal drugs in Winehouse's system. Her cause of death is still a mystery. Alcohol was found in the singer's system but it is not known of that...

August 15, 2011: Song Helps Me Cope With Leiby's Death, Nachman Kletzky Says
Comments: 29 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Music
Leiby Kletzky's dad says that a new memorial song about his slain son is helping him cope with the boy's horrifying death. "Every time I hear this song, every time I see this, it brings me back memories," Nachman Kletzky...

August 14, 2011: Audio: Leiby Kletzky's Father And Lipa Schmeltzer
Comments: 49 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Music
The father of the murdered and dismembered 8-year-old hasidic boy, Leiby Kletzky, and Lipa Schmeltzer, the opportunist Jewish music superstar, make a joint radio appearance. From last night's Talkline radio show with Zev Brenner. The audio runs 9:24. Please click...

August 11, 2011: Chabad Rabbis Ban Avraham Fried Concert
Comments: 27 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Chabad , Music
Slamming Avraham Fried's concerts which lack gender segregated seating, Chabad rabbis from northern Israel ban an upcoming Fried concert as immodest. Fried is himself a Chabad hasid, and is the brother of Chabad's English language modesty expert, Rabbi Manis Friedman....

August 3, 2011: Baba Elazar Murdered Because Of "Improper" Singers, Songs, Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak Says
Comments: 47 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Music , Sefardim
The Yemenite kiruv rabbi behind attempts to ban popular haredi music and haredi singers, blames the murder of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira on "improper" haredi singers and songs. Rabbis Amnon Yitzhak (left) and Elazar Abuhatzeira (right). Never one adverse to exploting...

July 23, 2011: Amy Winehouse Dead
Comments: 76 | Categories: Music
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse, who was struggling with her drug addiction, was Saturday found dead in her North London home. Amy Winehouse found dead at London home Zee News London: Troubled singer Amy Winehouse, who was struggling with her drug...

July 15, 2011: Child Killer Levi Aron Sings
Comments: 8 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Music , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Levi Aron perfoming "No Air" with Hinarae Matsuyoshi, known as isledancer on singsnap.com, a karaoke website. She lives in Hawaii. [Hat Tip: Here Levi Aron sing.]

July 8, 2011: A New Lipa Schmeltzer Ban
Comments: 24 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Music
Hasidic superstar singer Lipa Schmeltzer is supposed to sing for a Breslov group in Uman, but leading Breslov rabbis banned him. Schmeltzer was previously banned in the spring of 2008 by a large group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis. The ban: [Hat...

June 23, 2011: Clarence Clemons – A Memorial
Comments: 12 | Categories: Music
I've wanted to post something appropriate since I heard Sunday that Clarence Clemons, AKA The Big Man, the great sax player who was an integral part of Bruce Springsteen's E Street band for about 40 years, passed away from complications...

April 12, 2011: Video: Chabad Rapper DeScribe Talks To The NY Daily News
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Music
The hasid turned 14-year-old street kid turned hasid again explains his music and his outlook.

March 11, 2011: Carlebach Gives New Life To American Jewish Music
Comments: 10 | Categories: Music , Women & Judaism
In the niche market of American Jewish music, Neshama Carlebach has already reached superstar status. She has sold about a million CDs and has toured constantly for nearly 20 years, playing everything from 5,000-seat concerts for Jewish executives to weddings...

February 15, 2011: Chabad Jazz Musician Daniel Zamir Profiled
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad , Music
Saxophonist Daniel Zamir, once a far leftist, now takes stage as a haredi Jew, speaks fluent Yiddish and plays with top musicians at secular clubs. With no intention of giving up his love of music, he sees it as his...

January 25, 2011: 'Kosher' Video Sharing Website Allows Viewers To Rock, Kosher Style
Comments: 11 | Categories: BTs , Haredim , Music , Outreach
“It’s just like YouTube, except with one difference: there isn’t any lasciviousness,” explained Sharon Bokubaza, a student from the Breslov Shuvu Banim Yeshiva who is also the site director. “Glatube is geared for newly-observant Jews who want to hear music...

January 13, 2011: Tel Aviv Mayor Under Fire For Allowing City's First Gender-Segregated Concert
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Music , Women & Judaism
"The Mann Auditorium is one of the most important city-owned civic symbols of Tel Aviv. I don't think any of the city founders thought that someday someone would say, 'Men sit here and women sit there.'" Tel Aviv Mayor under...

January 11, 2011: And The Award For The Sickest, Worst, Most Exploitative Haredi Music Video Of All Time Goes To…
Comments: 37 | Categories: Haredim , Music , Outreach
Shmuel Borger, whose video for the Shloimy Daskal song "Still Your Child" will go down in infamy. Don't watch it without a vomit bag. [Hat Tips: Frum Satire, who got it from DovBear.]

January 10, 2011: Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Moshe Yess
Comments: 25 | Categories: Chabad , Music
The singer-songwriter who was once a backup musician for Crosby, Stills and Nash, and who became a Chabad messianist who claimed to have seen the late rebbe in the flesh after he died, and frequented late-night radio talk shows like...

January 3, 2011: The Hazan Who Became Disturbed
Comments: 11 | Categories: BTs , MO & Chardal , Music
David Draiman has taken a winding path from promising but rebellious student of Judaism to front man for one of the music world’s most popular heavy metal bands. The hazan who became Disturbed David Draiman has taken a winding path...

December 29, 2010: Israeli Music Group The Idan Raichel Project Profiled By The BBC
Comments: 15 | Categories: Israel , Music
"I wish Palestinian and Lebanese kids would learn about Hebrew culture, and that Israeli youngsters would learn about Palestinian art and Lebanese folklore. Generation after generation in the Middle East is being raised to believe that on the other side...

December 9, 2010: Video: Matisyahu Learns To Box From Dmitriy Salita
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Music , Sports
Matisyahu gets a boxing lesson from the Chabad boxer, Dmitriy Salita. The segment with Matisyahu and Salita starts at about 5 minutes into the video:

October 14, 2010: Band Aid For Rubashkin
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Music
When 51-year-old Rubashkin was jailed this summer for a string of financial crimes, his 27-year sentence shocked many in the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox world. Band Aid for jailed slaughter boss By Paul Berger • Jewish Chronicle The uplifting music...

October 8, 2010: Rubashkin Music Video Has Swanky Premiere In Crown Heights
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Music
Mordechai Ben David delayed a visit to the young infant Laizer Galperin in Cincinnati who suffered critical wounds some time ago, in order to be at the event today. “Sholom Will See It When He Is Free” In a heartwarming...

October 7, 2010: Jewish Music Superstars Release Unity Music Video In Honor Of Sholom Rubashkin
Comments: 76 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Music
The "We Are The World" of the Jewish people was not done to support terror victims or to raise money to provide relief for poor people or to aid famine victims or flood victims. It was made to honor a...

October 5, 2010: Great Band
Comments: 14 | Categories: Music
Roma Di Luna's sound will blow you away. There isn't any Jewish connection here that I know about. But I heard this Twin Cities-based band for the first time this week and I'm blown away by their sound and their...

August 23, 2010: Rabbi Who Endorsed Book Permitting Murder Of Arab Babies Says "Nigger" Music Not Kosher
Comments: 137 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , MO & Chardal , Music
"Music can get contaminated. Experts will investigate and see if the tune is 'kosher,' if it expresses an aspiration to goodness, or if it is taken from the jungle and stimulates negative emotions. With pop, you can see clearly that...

August 20, 2010: He Said Kaddish For Elvis Presley
Comments: 21 | Categories: Books , History , Music
A close friend of Presley from they were 12 years old until Elvis died, Klein grew up in observant home, the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitism in Europe. "My mother and father were both Orthodox Jews." I said...

June 29, 2010: Singing Rabbi Gets Prison Time For Grand Larceny
Comments: 36 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Music
A singer and purported rabbi who claimed to have the stardom of Michael Jackson in Israel was sentenced to one to three years prison on Tuesday for stealing $36,000 from a Washington Heights woman. Rabbi and Self-Proclaimed Singing Star Gets...

June 23, 2010: Matisyahu Joins PETA Campaign To Urge Israeli Fur Ban
Comments: 38 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Matisyahu , Music
Jewish reggae star Matisyahu has sent an urgent letter on PETA's behalf to Israeli government leaders urging them to support a bill currently in the Knesset that would ban the fur trade in Israel. If the bill passes, Israel will...

May 13, 2010: Video: What The Heck Is "Hava Nagilah"?
Comments: 14 | Categories: Film , History , Music
New film asks, what the heck does one of the most popular pop songs of all time mean? Where did it come from? And why do so many non-Jews sing it? Hava Nagilah, What Is It? from Katahdin Productions on...

May 9, 2010: Mindblowing Music
Comments: 20 | Categories: Music
Two amazing songs from a great singer and band. These are two (low res) mp3s by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. You'll recognize the sound. The Dap-Kings are a tight, hot band that backed Amy Winehouse on a few of...

May 7, 2010: Musical On Life Of Shlomo Carlebach Opens
Comments: 29 | Categories: Music
Soul Doctor, a new musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, makes its regional premiere in New Orleans at Muriel's Cabaret Stage at Le Petit Theatre May 7-12 and is headed for Broadway in 2011. Broadway-Aimed Soul...

April 24, 2010: Breslov Influenced Haredi Music School Opens
Comments: 18 | Categories: BTs , Haredim , Israel , Music
School aimed at religious musicians includes 'creative beit midrash' as part of studies. Rabbi Nachman's rock opera is underway. School for religious musicians opened These students will keep praying even after they are accepted to Mizmor School of Music. School...

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