Over the past 6 years Shemspeed has produced the Sephardic Music Festival in NYC, highlighting the remarkable diversity that exists within the Jewish community. This is the first music festival to...
Kosha Dillz Diary Vol. 1: Respectfully Requesting More Yarmulkes
Guest Post by Kosha Dillz I am currently 10,000 plus feet in the air on some go go flight 15 dollar Internet shenanigan and after speaking with Rabbi Yonah at many of his amazing Shabbat dinners, I...
Avoiding a civil war in Israel
The crazy rabbi who pronounced recently that if the IDF allows women to perform in public, then observant men should immediately leave the area even if it’s against military regulations and...
Matisyahu Explains About the Beard Thing
Matisyahu did a radio interview on WNYC where he discussed his reasons for shaving off his beard and payos. Apparently he is still going to the synagogue, still hitting the mikveh and still rocking a...
Matisyahu Shaves Beard; Set to Join the Maccabeats
You would think the world had ended the way some people are going on and on about Matisyahu shaving off his beard and payes. Granted it was a bold move for a man who began his career as the...
What was the one missing ingredient from the YU anonymous sex story? A music video!
Hat tip to New Voices, which also broke the original story. Thanks to them, I plotzed when I saw it (I have no idea what plotzing means because I didn’t grow up with any Yiddish in my household...
Light up Hanukkah, a Party With a Cause
Join us for the most rocking Hanukkah celebration in Los Angeles, Thursday, December 22, 8pm at The Joint. Featuring live music by world music legends Naked Rhythm. This party with a cause benefits...
While Newt gets in trouble for denying Palestinian nationhood, a little video crops up
Somebody needs to preserve this video before it magically disappears from Youtube. This is former Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara denying there is or ever was a Palestinian people. He is referring, by...
Shmulik Krauss
Okay, he was a troubled man in many respects, but his musical talents can’t be denied.
Of YU Blogs, Sex at Stern and Shenanigans
The Internets are all a flutter about the latest news coming out of Yeshiva University. It all started when the Yeshiva University Beacon published an anonymously written article about a sexual...