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

The Mennonite version.  

 Tablet Magazine on  "Pop Emuni" — the resurgence of faith in Israeli pop culture. This is part of a fascinating phenomenon that i...

 The rabbis in Israel are  banning separate seating concerts! "The Committee's directives include a complete ban on mixed-gender pe...

 Thank you Hashem for  "Real Yidden"! Update: There's a  rejoinder!

  Sometimes a kugel is just a kugel...

IDing the composer of  Bim Bam/Shabbat Shalom.  

... because the Chareidi Roshei Yeshiva  cancelled Shmulik Sukkot's concert too.   IMO, this is a huge mistake on their part... one that...

... over what has  been done to his nigun.  

Leah... A broken heart can set you free.

 More on the latest lunacy re: banning women's sections at concerts... over at  Vos Iz Neias .

Vov Zayin  

 In Israel, Naftali Kempeh issued refunds to all of the women who had purchased tickets to the separate seating women's section at his u...

New(ly discovered) Carlebach song  

Chaim Shlomo Mayesz is  Proud!  

 Saddened to hear the news of flautist Avi Piamenta's passing over Shabbos. Avi and his brother Yossi on electric guitar, were foundatio...

Over at the Seforim blog...  comparing the Star-Spangled banner and Oz Yashir.  

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