Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Tis The Season...

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c A Colbert Christmas: Jon Stewart Colbert at Christmas Colbert Christmas DVD Green Screen Bil...
Monday, November 24, 2008

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part V

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Continuing the series... In Chapter Three, Rabbi Luft looks at "The Sources of the Modern 'Chassidic' Music" and explicat...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

They'll Ban This When They Find Out About It...

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Oh, no! Via Chaptzem Blog! where you can also download an mp3 of the song. P.S. Rubin, that's for you. Now back to Luft-blogging...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part IV

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Moving on to Chapter Two, "Quotes From Newspapers and Books On 'Rock and Roll'"... In the first section of this chapter, R...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Off The Review Stack: Pitom, Josh Nelson, Yitzy Spinner, Craig Taubman's Lights

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Off the review stack... Yoshi Fruchter's Pitom This disc is composer/guitarist Yoshie Fruchter's debut recording on the Tzadik recor...
Monday, November 17, 2008

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part IIIa

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This section should have been included in my previous post on the first chapter of Rabbi Ephraim Luft's book, "In Review - R' E...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Poshut in the Top 50

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Lipa Schmeltzer makes the Forward's Top 50 Jews of 2008. In the cloistered world of ultra-Orthodox Jewry, Hasidic singer Lipa Schmeltzer...

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part III

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Continuing my review of Rabbi Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker"... Here are some comments on Chapter 1 - The Influence ...

From the mailbag...

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Avromy Ackerman forwards a link to a Nir Naaman saxophone solo. I think you’ll get a kick out of this. At 6:38 in the link which I’m includi...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I'll See Your Minutn Fun Bitokhn....

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... and raise you one Yiddish Uncle Moishy! Oy vay!
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Hachnasat Bar Mitzvah Bachur

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Over at Orthonomics, Sephardi Lady is upset about a tzedakah request sent to the Five Towns list server on behalf of a Bar mitzvah boy whos...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part II

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Continuing my review of Rabbi Ephraim Luft's book, "The Torah Is Not Hefker".... The first installment can be found here. As p...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Post Election JM Rumor

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Word is Shwekey is in the studio recording his version of Oba-Ma-Ma as I type...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Marvin Silbermintz...

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doesn't want to go to rehab.
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Vesamachta Lead Sheet Analysis- Trio

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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...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Vesamachta Lead Sheet Analysis- Part Deux

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

What Would Shlomo Say?

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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...
Monday, October 27, 2008

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part I

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