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Some Radio Freestyles For Free Download
After receiving quite a few requests via e-mail, forum talkbacks and messages, i finally got around posting this collection of hard-to-find freestyles i did for various shows on Israeli radio, (mainly Galei Tzahal 96.6FM) between 2006-2009. Featured artists include Rebel Sun, Saz, Metro, Kashi and more. Download while they’re available, and enjoy.
Let's play "Don't Die"
This week, Newsweek celebrates the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, a revered pioneer in children’s edutainment. This week marks another milestone in children’s edutainment: the premiere of Tom and Mobi’s “Prepared is Protected!“, a Hebrew flash animation game teaching Israeli kids how to take cover in case the weather forecast calls for katyusha/qassam rockets. As a bonus, kids get to put their skills to the test during next week’s nation-wide fire drill, where they’ll have between zero and three minutes to take cover…just like Tom and Mobi showed you! The producers may prove stiff competition for Birthright’s flash animators.
So, what are you teaching your children? Play it again, Farfour Point Blank movies
! Translated excerpt from Tom & Mobi after the jump. Read More »
Zaydee turns 80
I spent all weekend with the extended fam for a cousin’s bar mitzvah celebration, which culminated with an 80th birthday party for my Zaydee (poo poo poo). Zaydee is a man of humble means, whose resume reads janitor, milk truck driver, and chazzan. Can’t say who would have won a cantor-battle between him and Jeremiah Lockwood’s grandfather. During davening, a pretty standard revue of centuries-old Shabbat prayer melodies, Zaydee angrily turned to us and asked, “Who chose these tunes? It sounds like an Irish wake!” That stood alone as a pretty good zinger. But then he threw in this bold claim: supposedly, he and Bubbie stayed up ’til five in the morning with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach the night that the singin’ rabbi composed his melody for Ein Keloheinu
. That might sound outlandish, except that Zaydee has a knack for backing up his stories with remarkable minutiae–in this case, a location: a club on 41st Street that was supposedly a well-known venue for Jewish and Israeli musicians. Anyone know the name of this place?
We love you, Zaydee. Keep those stories coming ’til 120 
A Stranger Song - Leonard Cohen In Hebrew
So now it’s official. Mr. Cohen will perform the last show of his European tour in Tel Aviv, on September 24th.
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Five years ago, a very special album was created, featuring 18 Israeli musicians interpreting Cohen’s work each in his own style - in Hebrew. The album, A Stranger Song, got the green light from Mr. Cohen himself, but not from the record and publishing companies, which hold the rights to the songs. And so it became an Internet-Only album and a much sought-after item among music lovers and Cohen enthusiasts. Here it is for your download and listening pleasure, “First We take Manhattan”, “Chelsea Hotel #2″, “Joan Of Arc”, “Tower Of Song”, “Who By Fire” and more Cohen gems, performed by (in order of appearance): Eli Surani, Sagol 59, Noam Peled, Razi Ben Ezer, Itay Balter, Sharon Moldavi, Blush, Ariel Gal, Ohad Goldbart, Morphlexis, Rotem Or, Shani Kedar, Kfir Shtivi, Galit Florenz, Talia Eliav, Billy Levy, David Peretz, Gabriel Balahsan.
Adam Lambert is Jewish?!
My tribe has had a long, tumultuous relationship with idols. Abraham, the first Jew, delivered a smack-down to his father Terach’s idols as a symbol of rebellion. A mere 41 days after Moses went up Mt. Sinai to transcribe the Torah, he comes down to find his people dancing in a frenzied orgy around a copper cow (excuse me, “golden calf”). Our Top Ten Commandments devote prime placement to the fact that we should never bow down to graven images, statues, or anything else even remotely smelling like an idol. But anyone who thinks that Judaism has always basked in the sunshine of monotheism should go back and reread their history books. Whether picking up tips from their Egyptian taskmasters or the Canaanites with whom they would share zip codes, idol worship has always been a stone’s throw from the Jewish experience.