Mi Chamocha - Yehuda!

Yehuda! was way before his time. That is to say, he arrived on the Jewish music scene very shortly after his "style" gained popularity in the popular pop-culture pop-houses. He writes, plays, arranges, records and harmonizes his own stuff. It would take me too long to explain exactly why all this makes him one of the stars of Jewish music when he is so obviously not at all even near to being close to said stardom either in talent or recognition.



But that's the thing: he is.

Building the Mikdosh - Chayolim Ensemble

By Zalmy Negin. An after-school elective that will do good things for sure! הצלחה רבה!

Piamenta/Stan Getz - 1977 - Mitzvah

HT: YA

Yedid Nefesh with a Twitch

Avremele Melamed - Bruce Adler

And of course, thanks to our supporters and to Mr. Baumgarten for taking those first critical steps toward freedom by removing a portion of the Sonic Wall to allow free emigration from the isolation of DivShare to the free shores of ShirShelYom.

Thank you, Ber. Thank you. ילחו מחיל אל חיל

I once posted the Yiddish version from David Koussevitzky.

The Day The Music Died

Recently, Ber SonicWalled me. I cannot access DivShare. I cannot access YouTube. I cannot access Slate or Drudge or Chrudge.

I can resign myself to the sad reality and declare:

איך גיי אין ארבייט, די ניגונים לאז איך אייך

Or I can stand up to the tyranny and ask you to join me, fellow authors, readers and listeners, in a perfect chorus of defiance.

Let us sieze this day, this forum and the song bottled within each of our souls to demand an end to the silence:

As one we say:

Mr. Baumgarten! Tear Down This Wall!!!

Yismechu v'Malchuscha - Choni Grunblatt

Sweeeeet.

A Jewish Star: Choni Grunblatt from COLlive.com on Vimeo.

HT: CR, SK

מייש און בעני

אונזער הארציקער דאנק צו ברוך כהן

Forever One - Nissen Brenenson

Vote. How funny would it be then Brenenson? Huh? How would you like it if you won, Brenenson?

A Jewish Star: Nissen Brenenson from COLlive.com on Vimeo.

Rebono Shel Olam - Dudu and Avremel

The Lonero Family - Destiny

See, at our Shabbos table we would actually all sing "La la la la la laiiii... la la la la la la laiiii..." And my sister still picks up the phone when I call: "Is that you my brooother?" And I sadly say, "Oh yes, it is I."

Oh my GODDDD, memories! Memories, my good people.



Happy two-thousand-and-ten! See you on the flip :)

You know Dov Levine?

He's gotta a pretty randomly pleasant voice, too.

There will be no song to prove it. Just what it is, is what it is and it is an exercise in trust.

Cyber Conductor - Aleksey Igudesman/Sebastian Gürtler

Very cute.



HT: Ber Bom

Barba Abba - Tzipi Shavit

NO, I did not expect to bust THIS song! Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh...



Lyrics here. (It's actually a pretty lovely story :))

HT:Ber/Peninah Bombom

Tza'aku - Rivie and Avrumi Schwebel

Maybe it's just the name. Maybe you'll never know.



HT:M Alevsky