Blog in Dm: Blogging Jewish Music from A to Zorn!

HaRav Yitzchak Yosef rules that Sefardim and Ashkenazim should  make weddings during the Three Weeks this year!  

Shaul Shapira used Chat GPT to write "Rupture and Reconstruction" parodies of Abie Rotenberg's "Yeshivishe Reid".  

They're lowering standards in Lakewood.   This is likely to work out about as well as the other attempts.

Times of Israel  tells about a Lenny Solomon documentary  

 Over at Lehrhaus...  a review  of Jessica Roda's " For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy  t hrough the Arts in the ...

Eyal Golan's hit song from 2017,  Hatunat Hashana  made into Eurovision via  Iceland!

Rav Joey on  understanding the song, "Bar Yochai".

This one is about stopping the war in Ukraine.  

Peter Himmelman's powerful Substack criticism of  Berklee's hiring of Nicholas Payton   went viral... ... and Berklee just  fired Pa...

Coachella needs to speak up.  

Shtikah Kehoda'ah. Where are the leaders?  

Peter Himmelman  on the antisemitism at Coachella.

says Rabbi Greenspan.  

Rabbi Greenspan's first(?) collab with TYH Nation -  Yum Yum  

I haven't seen anyone assemble the numerous inspirational songs/performances that have come out of the tragedy, so here's a list of ...

Freed hostage Sagi Dekel Chen  recorded a version of Keren Shemesh  weeks after being released.

The Jerusalem Post  reports on the music Yarden Bibas chose to be played at the Bibas' funeral  today.

Saddened to report that Chazzan Benzion Miller Z"L  has died.  

Interesting  Ishay Ribo profile .

 Mendel Roth, son of the Shomer Emunim Rebbe enlists in the IDF today and releases a  song, "Ani Ratz Lakrav". ראיתי עם עתיק שחי...

The general concept of "bageling" involves someone who isn't obviously Jewish looking identifying themselves to someone who is...

From the Y-Studs... a  Jackson 5 Chanukah!   From Six13...  a Wicked Chanukah! From the Maccabeats...  a Wicked anthem!

from  Tower of Power!!!  

I suppose this was inevitable... עוד יותר רע!

This keeps happening!   Rabbis need to stop taking positions based on either ignorance or impression without investigating who/what/why and ...

  No words.

Apropo of yesterday's post...  

Od Yoter Tov  Ve.... Od Yoter Tov!

Over at the Forward...  Riki Rose, Yiddish rock star.  

 Chasidic singer, Mendel Roth, the son of the Shomer Emunim Rebbe  is joining Tzahal.

Found where I want to live in Israel ! 

 Saddened to report the passing of Rav Aviezer Wolfson, the composer of the well-known Mah Ashiv many of us sing in shul.

BD'E, Yigal Calek has died.   No hedpeidim on Chol Hamoed.