On the beauty of combining our inner tortoise and hare.
These are some of the songs that help me try harder and help me feel closer during these Days of Awe. Enjoy.
This has been the saddest year of my life and also the most fulfilling. Coincidence?... I think not!
Jewish music is a hard concept to grasp. It has no exact specification, no instrument that dictates its sound, no...
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
Alan Jay Sufrin started writing new songs, possibly a side project, possibly the next step in his career -- and then he stopped making music entirely.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Musician Jeryko debuts his first two singles.
Finding my connection to Judaism through the Jewish punk group, Golem.
I didn’t bring it up with him directly, but I spoke to others about my concerns about his beard. The lack thereof. I was afraid that it meant that he accepted the army’s dress standards over our religious ones, allowing a foreign body to dictate his religious choices. My point of reference for that was my having given up playing music on Shabbos, despite that being antithetical to the standards of practicing and performing in the music world. Did that therefore mean that we didn’t share some important values, ones that would affect our relationship in the long term?
