Many holiday music videos are fun to watch or have a great message. But the music? Sometimes mediocre. But Shtar, a Jewish hip hop band of Yanks and Brits in Israel has solved the problem. A holiday music video with terrific music. Full disclosure – Shtar were clients of mine for a bit – which makes […]
Tag: Orthodox Judaism
For The Season of Renewal: A Classic Text Revised
The Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur period is always a time of focusing on books with ethical messages and guides to improvement. The classic Shaarei Tshuvah: Gates of Repentance is probably a top choice for many to learn at this time. Written by Rabeinu Yonah and first published in 1505, this book is a pillar of […]
A Jewish Werewolf – Unorthodox Fiction from an Orthodox Jewish Author
Wolves are “in”. Werewolves seem to be even more “in”. A few years ago someone approached me with a book about Jewish vampires and I wasn’t sure there would be readers for it. By the time Ira Berkowitz called me about his book A Wolf in the Soul, I knew it was time. This theme seemed […]
The Talmud as an App? Wow.
I work with some of the editors “behind the scenes” of the new ArtScroll Talmud App. I have seen them labor for a long time on every detail of helping put this App together. I was finally given a brief tour today of the App and it is simply amazing. The written Talmud may be […]
Hush….. a book (and video) about abuse reminds us of the power & value of books
Remember a book that you read which had serious impact on how you felt about something? Well….add Hush to your list. When I asked some Jewish media thinkers & writers which books they really enjoyed reading in 2012 (this list to be postedhere soon), Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein wrote to me explaining that one of the books he read, Hush […]