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

Our good friend, Rabbi Ephraim Luft goes 0-2 this week in Israel. (We reviewed his magnum opus "The Torah Is Not Hefker" here.) ...

Recent events have me pondering the following topic -- How to have a discussion when one side believes the other side should not ever be men...

Over at the Forward's Sisterhood blog... "Taking on the Rabbinate." Tininitus? Reboot your brain. I want a printer like this! ...

"Rerun Guy" This peep, speaking at a sheva brachos, announces that he's repeating a speech most of the guests heard at last ni...

"In Your Face Video Guy" This peep stalks the room with his personal video camera. Sizing up his prey, he stalks them, waiting unt...

The great Jewish singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman has died. Baruch Dayan Emes! "Lechi lach/on your journey I will bless you/and you sh...

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky 2008 : "Rabbi Kamenetzky confirmed that he had spoken to Friedman and said that he had understood that the requ...

"Name Witheld" writes: You write: "Note, Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky signed this one. Surprising, given his public statements after...

This time, it's the website Vos Iz Neias. Hirhurim has details and a translation of the ban, which was published in yeterday's ...

Shlomo (Sol) emails: Hi- I arranged and played in a kumzitz with Reb Shmuel Brazil this past motzei shabbos, I thought your subscribers migh...

...if we didn't note this remarkable Jewish music video.

Hat tip, anon.

A must read! Terry Teachout's WSJ article about German violinist Adolf Busch, "the Man Who Said No to Hitler." In Haaretz, ...

Over at PopChassid.com, Marcy Rivka Nehorai posts "Matisyahu, Say It Ain’t So." Great comments thread too!

Yehudah Katz emails a link to his latest music video. Steven writes: I have been trying to locate sheet music of songs performed by Etti Ank...

That Maccabeats tune hits the Billboard charts.

Gaby Dunn posts "Top 5 Cute Jews From the Maccabeats Video." Inevitable, I suppose. Via DovBear.

Thanks to Shalom for posting these: Shivat Zion Shema Kolenu Amudei Shaish

Sen. Orrin Hatch Adam Dickter: There are no good Hanukkah songs! Matisyahu: Why aren't there more folksy Hanukkah songs! Plus his musi...

Atrocious Yiddish transliteration aside, here's a Hanukah remix project from Tablet. And you thought Orrin Hatch's song was fun!