From the mailbag...

Someone with waaaaaaaay too much free time writes:

I just noticed something pretty stupid and careless at the new Srully W website - look at the source code. The site is contributing hits with every click to a "Yeshua ministries" page because the web person stupidly imported the BSD graphic from that site.

There's something incredibly ironic about a "Chassidic" singer lifting a "With the help of God" graphic from a Messianic Christian site.

Arkady forwards the following:

Hi folks,

Just in case you are not on this Jazz Promo Services List
...., I thought I'd forward this to you...

MICHAEL BRECKER WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED, AND NEVER FORGOTTEN!!!

PLEASE GET TESTED, AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!

1-800-MARROW-2

WWW.MARROW.ORG
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This is from Michael Brecker

JANUARY 13, 2007 -

Following a two and a half year battle with MDS and then leukemia, Michael
passed away.

In lieu of flowers, we ask that donations be made to The Marrow Foundation's
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FUND.

Many lives have been saved as a result of those who joined the National
Marrow Donor Program at donor drives on behalf of Michael---and who were
perfectly matching donors for others in need. 

There is much work to do, and we ask you to please join us in this effort.
Thank you for all of your support.

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Michael Brecker Memorial Tuesday, February 20thTown Hall 6:00-7:30pm

MICHAEL BRECKER MEMORIAL
Tuesday, February 20th
Town Hall, NYC, USA
http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org/pages/visitors/directions.html
123 West 43rd Street
6:00-7:30pm
General Admission
Public Invited
Doors open at 5:15pm

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Thank You!!! Please Spread the word!!!

We've urged people to get tested before, but it bears repeating.

E. writes:

I don't think murmurings of a rumored boycott of Aderet "perpetually leased" products are affecting sales of Shwekey's CD at the YU Seforim Sale one way or the other. In other news, I set up a lemonade stand outside and warned people that I was perpetually leasing them their respective cups of lemonade.

The CD rental policy is just embarrassing. The claim in the revised text that it's approved by all "preeminent poskim" is a bald-faced lie. That said, the alleged boycott advice attributed to Rabbi Belskey seems over the top too.

In a series of 36 emails sent between 12:46 and 1:07, Sidney Goldberg writes:

Ralph,
Write the music to these hip Jewish styled shows!

Click www.SidneyGoldbergWriter.com and you'll see I write up a storm: book and lyrics to 20 musicals. Six have been completed by some of the most accomplished composers (see bio) and are currently under consideration, seven more are currently being written.

One of the funniest musicals ever written about nutty, meshugeneh Jews. Abraham, fulfilling his covenant with G-d by circumcising himself. "Abraham's Cut," is a hysterical story about the last mohel, circumciser in the Bronx. The three candidates who have come to be circumcised are petrified when they meet the Mohel that turns out to be wearing very thick glasses, his hands shakes and says he like to drink bourbon before all his circumcisions.

"That Bestseller," is a funny story about how the Bible was supposedly written.

At the bottom of my web, write music to the books and lyrics to a musical Trilogy on Genesis, the Torah. (In the Beginning) Will become a classic.
ShaiyaG@optonline.net
201 567-6533
www.SidneyGoldbergWriter.com

Sorry, we're going to pass on these.