It was date night and I was sitting with my cutie at Waffle Bar in Jerusalem, about to order dinner. As I was wondering what kind of Waffle Bar serves salads and pasta, this song came on the air. It was a middle eastern inflected cover of Guns and Roses seminal 1988 hit “Sweet Child […]
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I mean, what? How do you describe the Jewish Monkeys? We’ve certainly tried in the past but I guess it’s lost on most of you. Certainly, all the incel morons that insist on leaving comments about how awesome Hitler was and how much Jews suck – those guys don’t get it. What about those Jews […]
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The Anti Defamation League teams up with the Comedy video website Funny or Die to make this hilarious music video to bring awareness of anti semitism in cartoons. The video shows a singing Jewish owl explaining the history of antisemitic cartoons from propaganda stills to the children classic of the three little pigs and how […]
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We first came across the Hip Hop Hoodios when they headlined the Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach CA. It was April 9th, 2005 and while we had seen their video clips, we didn’t quite know what to expect. The combination of a Latino gang banger sound filtered through a distinctly cosmopolitan Jewish lens, well… lets […]
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Say hello to Y .Shafario, a new rapper who is from the Baltimore suburbs. He moved to New Orleans to become a lawyer, only to move to Jerusalem to become a family man and rapper. In this new rap song, the rapper strikes a series of lyrical truths over a hip-hop beat about pleasing the Neshama and G-d […]
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Tiny Desk is an NPR radio show that features a quirky collection of artists who perform at a tinydesk in front of a smattering of NPR employees and assorted friends. The show is also recorded and really well musically mastered for rebroadcast on YouTube. This episode features Israeli band A-WA, made up of three sisters […]
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Adam Sandler describes in this song from his new Netflix special, 100% Fresh, the reality of the bar mitzvah including the one mustache hair and your rabbi’s nose whistling whilst reading from the Torah. Enjoy.
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Israeli women. Singing in a Yemenite /Arab dialect. In a studio in the US. The world is a weird place, am I right? Borders are almost meaningless, and if someone is awesome, their talent can spread far and wide. I guess that’s the case with Israeli group A-WA. We’ve posted them here before and hopefully […]
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Tel Aviv is hosting Eurovision 2019 after Israeli Netta Barzilai’s 2018 win with Not Your Toy. Apparently things are going a bit roughly for the organizers – tickets have gone unsold and the expected tourism bonanza has not turned out as expected, possibly because of the high ticket prices, the recent barrage of Hamas and […]
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This year, Israel is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest thanks to their win last year. The winning artist was Netta and the song was Not Your Toy. In anticipation of this world-class event, enjoy the clip of the song that made it all happen – and see you in Tel Aviv!
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