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Here are some more reader comments on the Vesamachta lead sheet I’d posted . (You can find the first three comments here. ) Reader # 4 writ...

A number of folks emailed thoughts about Vesamachta Lead Sheet Analysis One reader wrote: I don't read notes well but the chords sound ...

Ever since he died 14 years ago, there has been a resurgence of interest in Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's music. In fact, he's composed m...

Recently, the topic of Rabbi Ephraim Luft's ongoing attempts at controlling/banning certain kinds of Jewish music have been attracting s...

Here's a lead sheet of Vesamachta, a traditional Sukkos melody. It is a composite based on two charts handed to me at chassidic simchas ...

File under miscellaneous... I made it through Rosh Hashana w/o being subjected to any of the trifecta which needs to be updated to include ...

Moshe writes: By the way, my wife's secular cousin (who was seen having a great time dancing at our wedding) told us last week that the ...

It is segregation in Meah Shearim for Simchas Beis Hashoeva this year. No outside women allowed! Lipa records a political ad for an Israel...

Avakesh posts post Yom Kippur video from Aish Kodesh, Woodmere, NY.

The title says it all. "Rabbonim Ban Chabad Simchas Beis Hashoeva." This is in Israel. How long before some attempt to do the same...

Thought I'd share today's set of chupa requests with ya'll... The Chosson -- Traditional Holy Devotional Nigun #1. The Kallah -...

VH1 classics wishes you a happy "Rush Hashana."

Here's something that happened at a recent left wing MO/Conservadox wedding at a venue in a Chareidi 'hood. During the first dance s...

... want you to know about the National Day of Lashon Hara Awareness tomorrow. "Fiery Gehenom", oy!

Yossi Zweig emails: I am doing a video interview with Eli Gerstner & Dovid Stein iy"h next week and was wondering if you wanted any...

From today's Hamodia, here is "Phase One" of the new wedding rules being established in the Chassidic community. Naturally, it...

From Lipa's website... Extra! Extra! Read all about it, right here on Lipa's astoundingly, astonishingly, astronomically superb site...

Here's an op-ed from today's J-Post, "Silencing Dissent, Hushing Up Scandal." Here's the lede: Two items recently cros...

Cleaning out the backlog... Chaim comments on "Worlds Are Colliding!" I know what you are saying about worlds colliding, but this ...