In episode 4 of Hip Hop in the Holy Land, Mike travels to the Tel Aviv compound of mythical rapper Subliminal, the first to rap in Hebrew and achieve big commercial success with it, and whose political views still divide rap fans. Mike also drops in to watch popular rap radio show Jigga Juice being […]
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Micky Shiloah shows you how to find love, marriage, and family in 7 easy steps. What’s unclear is if these steps will work for anyone or if you have to be a nice Jewish boy for the methodology to work. This video is all kinds of confusing, but I’ll hold off on the commentary and […]
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We wrote about the Jewish Monkeys, like, a million years ago. Ok. It was only three or so years ago. We told you how awesomely cool they were. Since then they’ve been touring in the UK and Germany because I guess Europeans have a taste for the esoteric and anything that is reminiscent of their […]
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The last time we posted about Atzmus, an Argentinian Heavy Metal Band fronted by a Chabad Rabbi, it seemed as if they were no longer active. I mean what did we know? Our Spanish sucks after all. Well, it turns out we may have been a bit off. Or a lot off. See, Spanish is […]
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Edge sent Nick Moss to the West Bank to see how the Israeli occupation has affected the Palestinian people’s ability to get high. What he discovered was unbelievable. You can see all around me what it’s like here. People living in desperate conditions, completely cut off from coke, tranquilizers, even weed. So, so very sad. […]
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In Jerusalem, it’s not unusual to wake up in the morning and find that all the outdoor ads near your house that depict women have been defaced. Some ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that any depiction of the female form is immodest and some will even go out at night and deface such depictions. This animated short […]
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From Hasidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists, this film, released in 2012, covers politics, art, fashion, and religion like you have never seen before. Punk Jews explores a rising trend among committed Jews who are sincerely asking and expressing what it really means to be Jewish in the 21st century while smashing […]
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In this episode of MTV’s Rebel Music, musicians from both sides of the Israeli and Palestinian border discuss political and cultural possibilities. Palestinian rockers Khalas and Israeli metal icon Orphaned Land organize a joint concert, while folk legend David Broza collaborates with musicians young and old to call for peace, love and understanding. Is this […]
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“The tongue is more deadly than the pen and the sword” So far in the series we’ve heard from a Palestinian activist and an orthodox Jew, but there’s more to this thin strip of land than Jews and Arabs. In episode 3 of Hip Hop in the Holy Land, Mike travels to the desert town […]
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Some people hate the shit out of white Jew rapper Lil Dicky. Heems, aka Himanshu Suri, a member of now-defunct hip hop trio Das Racist, called Lil Dicky “white trash” in a heated twitter exchange. Drew Millard, a writer for Vice Magazine’s Noisey, called him an “asshole” declaring that his interview with Lil Dicky was […]
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