Make Your Own Israeli Music Video
Celebrating Israeli Culture and Expression (Pride):
We believe that one of the most beautiful expressions of להיות עם חופשי בארצנו (To be a Free People in Our Land) is the flourishing of Jewish culture and art that has come as a natural progression from the Jewish people building a thriving society in their ancestral homeland. To Full Post
Selecting the Artist
Just before you book an act, take a second to ask yourself a few questions.
Why am I aiming to book this Israeli act and not a different Israeli act?
What are my criteria for choosing?
Bearing in mind the amount of time and money you are about to invest in this band, it’s important to remember that the impact of the live event should be measured by more than how many people came through the door. To Full Post
4) Without Saying a Word – Bli Lomar Milah – בלי לומר מילה
A Shalom Chanoch classic is transformed from a soldier’s tale to a woman’s relationship with a non-communicative man.
The top 5 tent protest songs
First appeared in www.forward.com
What is the theme song for Israel’s Tent Protests? Although there are some brand new candidates (Mosh Ben Ari’s Look Me In The Eyes, and the unplugged version of a new song The Good Guys Will Win, that HaDag Nachash wrote specially for the Tent Protests), Israelis are rediscovering popular songs from the recent past that would seem to have been written with the current protests in mind. Tallkbackers and youtube uploaders are hailing them as prophecies finally coming to pass…
My top five are as follows:
Tisha B’Av and the Protests
Ehud Banai is a leading Israeli singer-songwriter.
This piece first appeared in Hebrew on http://www.ehudbanai.co.il/
Sometimes I ask myself why the sages determined that the days commemorating the destruction of the Temples should be days of mourning and fasting. After all, it was the Babylonians and the Romans after them who caused all the exile and destruction, so why aren’t they fasting?
A new Star is Born
Hagit Yaso won A Star is Born last night.
I don’t think even she was all that surprised. While tens of thousands demonstrated in the streets of Tel Aviv for fair housing prices, and others mourned the loss of Norway’s security and Amy Winehouse, the rest of us were watching cute Hagit win A Star is Born.
Roger Waters and BDS
Dear Mr. Waters,
I was deeply disappointed to learn that you have decided to build a wall between yourself and your Israeli fans. We love you here in Israel. Surely, you must know that from the warm reception you received when you performed here five years ago at the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom.
What you may not realize is that most Israelis believe in a two-state solution. But this vision is not as easy to turn into a reality as you may think. Instead of recognizing the situation’s complexity, you have joined the campaign to boycott Israel, appointing yourself as a judge in a conflict between Middle Eastern tribes. (How British of you!)
Remembering Debbie Friedman
I opened the newspapers and couldn’t find it.
I knew it was an outside chance, but it made me sad nevertheless.
Last night Debbie Friedman died. It was all over my facebook and, I’m assuming, all over the facebook of thousands of English-speaking Jews. But so far nothing in Israel.
Kobi Oz in Toronto, Part II
Toronto in the Cold
Like any bunch of post-army Israelis as soon as we landed at the hotel we got our act together, like a top patrol unit, mapped out Toronto and apportioned combat shopping missions. We put on our warmest clothing and set out for the street. Wow! The cold was simply scandalous! I tell you, the moisture in my eyes froze solid. But we didn’t despair and we found ourselves on a mission, like an alpine troop squad, checking out Toronto’s Chinatown. I looked for noodles, Johnny looked for a good camera angle, Gal looked for presents for the family and Noam looked for whisky.
Kobi Oz in Toronto, Part III
Getting Ready for the Show
On the morning of the performance I woke up in a panic as a result of which I forced myself to watch a crummy TV show about a fisherman, flabby people throwing fishing lines who bothered themselves and me with their fishing rods and baits, and salmon psychology and boat models. It didn’t relax me. I took to the cold street to walk a few miles and to go through all the complicated continuity pieces aloud. I thought people would thing I was crazy, walking along mumbling and then I looked to my right and I saw a black man walking while giving a speech about Messianic times. And next to me there was a white anarchist who stamped his feet and cursed the “cruel” Canadian regime. I undoubtedly have something of the amateur megalomaniac. I was always scared of getting to the Shiloah tunnel in the center of Jerusalem and the plug pops out. There’s even a song about that in the show:
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