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Obama cites AJWS - see, America does like Jews
Say what you will about the National Prayer Breakfast and its backers, but the news from JTA is that President Obama brought AWJS into the room in his remarks about Haiti relief:
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama cited the American Jewish World Service among groups that exemplify “God’s grace, and the compassion and decency of the American people.”
Obama, addressing the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, spoke of recent efforts to bring relief to Haitians after the island nation’s devastating earthquake.
God’s grace, he said, was expressed in Haiti “through multiple faith-based efforts. By evangelicals at World Relief. By the American Jewish World Service. By Hindu temples, and mainline Protestants, Catholic Relief Services, African-American churches, the United Sikhs. By Americans of every faith, and no faith, uniting around a common purpose, a higher purpose.”
Go Jews!
What We Did With Our Winter Vacation
Well, we’re back from vacation, and it’s time to catch you all up on what you might have missed over the break. Here ya’ go:
- The Faster Times included The Sway Machinery and Girls in Trouble in their Best of 2009 Music list.
- The Boston Survival Guide chose Girls in Trouble to include in their 2009 Band Roundup.
- Made Up Disease (MUD) posted a really nice and very thorough ode to JDub, including a whole bunch of our artists, like The Macaroons and Balkan Beat Box.
- Music magazine Blurt included Alicia of Girls in Trouble in their The Artists Have Spoken: Best of 2009 feature.
- JTA’s The Fundermentalist shed a little light on the recent Jdub/Nextbook partnership.
- The Forward listed Soulico and The Sway Machinery as picks on their 2009 Forward Fives list.
- The University of Oregon’s Oregon Voice had a great writeup on Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker.
- DJ Anjali listed Soulico’s Exotic on the Speaker as part of his Top 5 of 2009 in the Portland Mercury.
- Digital City has a fantastic interview with Dave Schneider of The Macaroons — conducted by Corn Mo’!
- The Sway Machinery is one of LimeWire’s Best of 2009 Staff Picks!
- Jeremiah Lockwood, of The Sway Machinery, published an op-ed in The Forward about the band’s trip to Mali.
- Our friends over at Tablet Mag talk up The Macaroons in a podcast dedicated to the best family-friendly music of 2009.
Last but not least, I’ve posted more photos from Jewltide 7 under the cut! All credit goes to Dan Sieradski.
Wandering Jew & Golem in Berlin
JTA’s Wandering Jew (reporter Ben Harris, for those of you not familiar) managed to catch Golem at their Berlin show the other night, and posted a killer video of the night on his site. Check it out above!
Wandering Jew!
JTA’s Ben Harris is a self declared Wandering Jew and he will wander wherever you tell him to! The fine folks over at JTA are hosting the Wandering Jew contest and are offering a fancy new ipod nano loaded with JDub music to the winner. Here’s a blurb about the contest,
“Seen any unique Jewish communities during your world travels? Got a fascinating Jewish story in your hometown? The Wandering Jew will go there! Best story pitch wins a FREE iPod nano (8GB, 5th Gen. with video) pre-loaded with BRAND NEW releases from JDub Records, the cutting edge Jewish music label!
Find out all the details HERE
JTA Goes Crazy For Sephardim
Yesterday the JTA ran a HUGE article about the resurgence of Sephardic influence in contemporary Jewish culture. Reporter Amy Klein chatted with lots of JDubbers, including JCUB Harris, DeLeon and Nathalie from Songs from the Garden of Eden. Full text below the cut.
Bruce does Hava Nagila
Ben Harris at JTA download iron man divx tips us off to Jeffrey Goldberg’s coverage for The Atlantic’s of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band playing Hava Nagilah (care of Rahm Emanuel)
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Further investigation by Goldblog reveals that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel played a key role in prompting Bruce Springsteen to play forty-five seconds of “Hava Nagila” at last week’s Verizon Center concert. This news will undoubtedly fuel more conspiracy theories about Jewish domination not only of the White House and Wall Street but of the E Street Band as well (Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan counting, obviously, as the Semitic leading edge).