# JewsRock
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## Pages
- [About](https://www.jewsrock.org/about.md) - Welcome, or welcome back, to Jewsrock.org. In the early 2000s, David Segal, a music critic at the Washington Post who now writes for The New York Times, and Jeffrey Goldberg, then at The New Yorker and now the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, asked their talented writer friends to contribute essays…
- [The Challah Fame](https://www.jewsrock.org/challah-fame.md) - Long before anyone counted, Jews were shaping rock and roll — writing the songs, spinning the records, and, now and then, standing center stage with a guitar. As the original Challah Fame put it: if it weren't for a pair of Jewish songwriters, Elvis's hips might never have been censored, and if it…
- [The Contributors](https://www.jewsrock.org/contributors-2.md) - The writers behind the essays — where they were then, and what they’re up to now. Years mark when each piece first ran on JewsRock.org (2005–2006). Ari Abramowitz — “Naked City” (2006) Ari Abramowitz is a music writer and the author of The Pockit Rockit Music Finder. Spencer Ackerman — “Don't Fear…
- [Store... Coming Soon](https://www.jewsrock.org/store-coming-soon.md)
- [Words](https://www.jewsrock.org/words.md) - Everything worth reading on JewsRock, gathered in one place. Dig in. Essays The long reads — the tailor behind rock's flashiest suits, Bob Dylan and the Talmud, Kiss as a metaphor for Jewish survival. Our flagship. The 4 Questions Quick Q&As with the tribe and its fellow travelers — Jon Stewart, Al…

## Posts
- [Dropping the Baum: The Real Names of Jewish Rockers](https://www.jewsrock.org/dropping-the-baum-the-real-names-of-jewish-rockers.md) - By Franklin Foer The history of punk could be told (counterfactually) as a Zionist parable. In the mid-70s, a band out of Forest Hills called the Hymans cut a stripped-down eponymous album, The Hymans. Crooning about Nazis, the Hymans' Jewish singer comes close to fulfilling the ideal of Muskeljude…
- [The Spirit of Rand](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-spirit-of-rand.md) - By Bob Cook If you were to ask anyone, "Family Feud"-style, what they associate with the Canadian power trio Rush, somewhere near the top of the list would be Geddy Lee's wailing siren of a voice. Also near the top would the band's most notable lyrical inspiration: novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand…
- [The Godfather of Everything That Moves](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-godfather-of-everything-that-moves.md) - By Ethan Brown James Brown is the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton the Godfather of Funk, but Mel Cheren is the Godfather of Everything That Moves. Hip-hop, punk-funk, techno, house—anything with a beat—shares its DNA with the music played at the Paradise Garage. Cheren ran the downtown New York c…
- [Rocking the Catskills](https://www.jewsrock.org/rocking-the-catskills.md) - By Anya Kamenetz Baruch Atah Adonei Elohenu Melech Ha Olom Ah yeah, that's the holiday . . . that's the Hanukkah robot funk! Barumpa bump bump, barumpa bump bump . . . beeyach! Baruch Atah Adonei Elohenu Melech Ha Olom Right about now gonna drop some Hanukkah science Yeah, this is it Although the a…
- [Naked City](https://www.jewsrock.org/naked-city.md) - By Ari Abramowitz Photo courtesy Michael Dorf New York was a dump. Hell, that’s why I wanted to go there. Mind you, it wasn’t the rotten apple Taxi Driver dump of the late 1970s. But to a nice Jewish boy from Scarsdale, pre-broken-windows-policy New York circa 1990 was crappy enough to evoke that e…
- [Have Yourself a Jewish Little Christmas](https://www.jewsrock.org/have-yourself-a-jewish-little-christmas.md) - By Sean Daly Jewish and "Jingle Bells" don’t mix. Every time a pop star with Judeo-Christian claims has dared go "dashing through the snow," the results have been disastrous. Take Barbra Streisand, for instance, whose frantic 1967 version, "Jingle Bells?" sounds like it was recorded in a meth lab.…
- [Parents purchase pop stars for daughter's sweet 13](https://www.jewsrock.org/parents-purchase-pop-stars-for-daughters-sweet-13.md) - by Izzy Grinspan The New York Times Style section continues its Bar Mitzvah coverage with a long story about superstars who shamefacedly play private parties. Example number one: Ja Rule and Ashanti, who recently performed at wee Amber Ridinger's entrance into the Jewish community. Things that are…
- [The Jewish godfather of outsider art](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-jewish-godfather-of-outsider-art.md) - by Izzy Grinspan “Outsider art” is a strange expression; ever since the idea of bohemianism came into being, artists have been outsiders by definition. “Outsider musician” is an even weirder idea, given how many rock stars have made their names by proclaiming their outsider status. But rock has a l…
- [Tell your friend Veronica](https://www.jewsrock.org/tell-your-friend-veronica.md) - by Izzy Grinspan There's a good reason Hannukah music isn't nearly as good as Chrismas music: it's just not that important a holiday, religiously. Christmas requires songs of solemn majesty -- "Silent Night" and "We Three Kings" and "The Little Drummer Boy" are all so stirring because "Happy Birthd…
- [Bad for the Jews: Update](https://www.jewsrock.org/bad-for-the-jews-update.md) - by Izzy Grinspan After years of legal battles, John Fogerty has returned to the label that once sued him for plagiarizing himself. Fantasy Records, now owned by the Concord Music Group, will release a best-of CD; a DVD is also in the works. Fogerty's old nemesis Saul Zaentz is no longer associated…
- [World's Greatest Jewish EMT returns to the airwaves](https://www.jewsrock.org/worlds-greatest-jewish-emt-returns-to-the-airwaves.md) - by Izzy Grinspan In less than two months, David Lee Roth will replace Howard Stern on radios along the East Coast. The New York Times has the story; Village Voice blog Riff Raff has an "exclusive" letter "from" DLR. The latter is more entertaining, plus it contains a joke about Sammy Hagar making a…
- [Shame! Embarrassment! Big Hair! Headgear!](https://www.jewsrock.org/shame-embarrassment-big-hair-headgear.md) - by Kara Baskin Behold: My Big Fat 80's Bar Mitzvah, coming soon to a bookstore near you. Teen angst as picture book. Their mothers always knew they'd be published. <br
- [Post-holiday rock](https://www.jewsrock.org/post-holiday-rock.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Jewsrock is proud to announce its first article by an ordained rabbi: Any Major Dude, an exegesis of the Steely Dan song as it relates to loss, sin, and the High Holy Days. The new year will see more of this sort of thing, plus of course more essays, histories, and profiles of the…
- [Who's Your Mama?](https://www.jewsrock.org/whos-your-mama.md) - By Emily Yoffe CBS Photo Archive/ Getty Images Entertainment/ Getty Images She’d probably appreciate the joke. Cass Elliot, who had an exquisite understanding of life’s absurdities, would acknowledge it would be hard to find a greater cosmic irony than a fat Jewish girl choking to death on a ham sa…
- [What Grammy Hall would call "a real Jew"](https://www.jewsrock.org/what-grammy-hall-would-call-a-real-jew.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Annie Hall presents a serious conflict for the Jewish girl. On the one hand, it’s nearly impossible to identify with Annie, not just because she’s so non-Jewish but because of the way she’s written. Annie is a cipher, the classic unknowable Other, both in terms of her ethnicity and…
- [How many Kol Nidres must one man hear before you can call him a Jewish folksinger?](https://www.jewsrock.org/how-many-kol-nidres-must-one-man-hear-before-you-can-call-hi.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Those who caught last night’s installment of No Direction Home, PBS’s documentary about Bob Dylan, will note that it’s not a very Jewish film. Young Zimmerman definitely looks Jewish in his newboy cap—actually, he looks a lot like Fievel Mousekewitz, the plucky rodent hero of An Am…
- [Max, replaced?](https://www.jewsrock.org/max-replaced.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Around here, we tend to be more excited about Max Weinberg than Paul Shaffer. This has nothing to do with Shaffer's role as musical director of the induction ceremonies of a certain litigious institution:, I swear. It's just the pull of the almighty Springsteen. As of yesterday, th…
- [Wendy Wasserstein on the Imaginary Piano](https://www.jewsrock.org/wendy-wasserstein-on-the-imaginary-piano.md) - What's the first album you ever bought? The Mamas and The Papas - I lived in New York so "California Dreamin'" was appealing to me. What's the best concert you've ever been to? The first time I saw the Beatles, at Carnegie Hall. If you could join any band, past or present, which would you choose? T…
- [Politics and prose](https://www.jewsrock.org/politics-and-prose.md) - by Izzy Grinspan There was a mysterious e-mail in my inbox today: Chopped Herring Records promising an exclusive track featuring a “very special guest MC” (the emphasis is theirs). Called “Happy September 11” and available here, the song is a fairly predictable diatribe about the sorry state of the…
- [Pop-kabbalah roundup](https://www.jewsrock.org/pop-kabbalah-roundup.md) - by Izzy Grinspan From Michael Musto: "Insiders say Madonna's horse is anti-Semitic." Finally! We'd been waiting days for somebody to make this quip. Meanwhile, Star reports trouble in trucker-hat paradise: Kevin Federline doesn't want to raise his baby Jewish, and Britney doesn't want to give birth…
- [Don't mess with a Jewish girl](https://www.jewsrock.org/dont-mess-with-a-jewish-girl.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Sharon Osbourne, we love you, and we wouldn’t want you to be anyone other than your feisty self. Weirdly enough, we also totally trust your judgment. On MTV’s reality competition “Battle for Ozzfest,”you conducted yourself with a dignity hitherto unknown in that medium, doling out…
- [Unfortunate Son](https://www.jewsrock.org/unfortunate-son.md) - By Kara Baskin Tucker Ranson/ Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but not when it comes to rock and roll. (Case in point: "Ice Ice Baby.") But few vocalists would dare attempt John Fogerty’s signature growl. Which was precisely Fogerty’s problem when…
- [Miri Ben-Ari conquers the world, piece by piece](https://www.jewsrock.org/miri-ben-ari-conquers-the-world-piece-by-piece.md) - by Izzy Grinspan This year’s MTV Video Music Awards will probably be remembered for disasters both natural and man-made: Hurricane Katrina, the shooting of Suge Knight, that scraggly stuff on Omarion’s chin. But for Jews in rock, the 2005 VMAs might go down in history as proof that not every hip-ho…
- [Art Garfunkel continues to define the word "schlemazel"](https://www.jewsrock.org/art-garfunkel-continues-to-define-the-word-schlemazel.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Yahoo reports that Art Garfunkel smokes pot. Poor guy can't catch a break -- this is the second time in two years that a cop has found a joint in his car. Weird how this kind of thing never happens to Paul Simon.
- [OyTunes](https://www.jewsrock.org/oytunes.md) - by Izzy Grinspan A old anti-Semitic stereotype suggests that Jews maintain their stranglehold on the world by only helping out fellow Hebrews. This is totally unfair, as it’s never so much Jewish favoritism as the simple fact that nobody else is qualified. I mean, seriously, you want we should turn…
- [The Yeshiva of Indie Rock](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-yeshiva-of-indie-rock.md) - By Doree Shafrir Adam Brody as Seth Cohen, the quintessential Jewish indie rocker At an indie rock show I was at a few weeks ago, the lead singer of one of the bands got on stage and said to the crowd, “Sorry for making you guys miss The O.C. But Seth Cohen would be proud.” I relate this anecdote f…
- [Kinkier and Kinkier](https://www.jewsrock.org/kinkier-and-kinkier.md) - by Izzy Grinspan You've probably seen it by now, but the entire text of Dan Halpern's article on Kinky Friedman's run for governor is online at the New Yorker website. It's full of Jewish Alice in Wonderland (Yentl In Wonderland?) moments like the following: “Pancakes for the Governor! The Governor…
- [The neighborhood, it is a-changin'](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-neighborhood-it-is-a-changin.md) - by Izzy Grinspan In light of what's going on in Gaza, it seems almost disrespectful to talk about the real estate "battles" over Jewish music landmarks in LA and New York. "Skirmishes"? "Conflicts"? "Friendly disagreements"? No matter how you word it, the bizarre truth of the 21st century is that J…
- [The Kinkster campaigns for lepers, cats](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-kinkster-campaigns-for-lepers-cats.md) - by Kara Baskin Kinky Friedman is now $45, 612 richer thanks to a lucrative gambling outing in the Big Easy over the weekend. The Jewish cowboy/professional Texan cashed in at Harrah's, according to wire reports. But Friedman, who plans to run for Texas governor (and will legalize gambling in the st…
- [The Situationist](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-situationist.md) - By Craig Bromberg Malcolm McLaren, Jewish? What were you expecting, bubeleh—a Scotsman in a kilt? Can you imagine the fury of the Sex Pistols issuing from anything but the mind of an alienated Jewish teenager, albeit one whose frame of reference includes British subcultures such as Teddy Boys, Rock…
- [Back to the future: Why does Jewish grunge exist?](https://www.jewsrock.org/back-to-the-future-why-does-jewish-grunge-exist.md) - by Izzy Grinspan “Jewish music goes grunge,” the Forward announced last week, introducing readers to the religious band Heedoosh. Listing the band’s influences as Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Radiohead and Oasis, the article explained that Heedoosh is one of the first bands “to use the angry howl and…
- [Cute as a kreplach](https://www.jewsrock.org/cute-as-a-kreplach.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Via Gawker, via Proceed at Your Own Risk, via the Forward: gay Jewish rapper Andrew Singer, aka Soce the Elemental Wizard. He may be the only guy in hip-hop whose beats sound engineered by Stephen Merritt, but as they point out over at Proceed at Your Own Risk, he's so not the only…
- [The Jewish case for gentile rock & roll](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-jewish-case-for-gentile-rock-roll.md) - by Spencer Ackerman On balance, you need to conclude that the late-19th century intellectual architects of Zionism were vindicated. It's true in some trivial sense that their contention that a Jewish homeland would mean a future of safety for all of us didn't exactly pan out. But come on: there was…
- [The Holy Trinity of Brooklyn Rock](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-holy-trinity-of-brooklyn-rock.md) - By Jonathan Karp Barry Manilow. Photo courtesy Carol Marshall. In 1982, as a college freshman, I took the socially precarious risk of writing an essay in The Brown Daily Herald in which I confessed my admiration for the music of Barry Manilow. I described my furtive trip to the campus ticket outlet…
- [Anti-Semitism claims the Rolling Stones](https://www.jewsrock.org/anti-semitism-claims-the-rolling-stones.md) - by Spencer Ackerman By now, you've surely read about the anti-Bush jeremiad on the Rolling Stones' forthcoming album A Bigger Bang. My first thought was dread. Most rock against Bush has been the domain of one-dimensional frauds like Conor Oberst, with the gigantic exception being Sleater Kinney (j…
- [Thank G-d for Nasser](https://www.jewsrock.org/thank-g-d-for-nasser.md) - by Spencer Ackerman In the mid-50s, a modern-day Amalek seized power in Egypt. Merging a fierce critique of European colonialism with a strident pan-Arabism, Gamal Abdel Nasser became the savior of the Arabs. The final component to Nasser's charisma was an anti-Semitism even more virulent that the…
- [And how can there be Yankees without Jews?](https://www.jewsrock.org/and-how-can-there-be-yankees-without-jews.md) - by Spencer Ackerman You can make the case that the defining episodes in Philip Roth novels all involve masturbation, either into chopped liver (Portnoy's Complaint) or onto a gravestone (Sabbath's Theater). For me, Roth's greatest moment of sublime insight into the Jewish condition comes in The Cou…
- [The Ballad of Curly Oxide](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-ballad-of-curly-oxide.md) - By David Segal This American Life is re-airing the story of Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill this weekend, and if you’re looking for some background about that tale, you’ve come to the right place. Where are you? Jewsrock.org launched just a couple weeks ago, and it’s a site dedicated, as you can see wit…
- [Where's the Jewish reggaeton?](https://www.jewsrock.org/wheres-the-jewish-reggaeton.md) - by Spencer Ackerman I haven't heard this guy Mitsubishi--you know, the Hasidic reggae singer--but that's never stopped me from judging someone's career before. My advice, offered sincerely, to my through-the-bedsheet friend is this: you're too late. It's not like you've got a bad idea. I would love…
- [Twice in a Lifetime](https://www.jewsrock.org/twice-in-a-lifetime.md) - by Spencer Ackerman If I may propose a solution to the problem of moving 9,000 fanatics out of Gaza: Buy them tickets to the upcoming Hellfest, a three-day, 187-band punk and hardcore extravaganza scheduled for the end of the month in the Jew-friendly environs of New Jersey. Granted, there are some…
- [Not every Jew rocks as hard as he'd like to, or as hard as other Jews](https://www.jewsrock.org/not-every-jew-rocks-as-hard-as-hed-like-to-or-as-hard-as-oth.md) - by Spencer Ackerman I learned this lesson at a young age when growing up in Brooklyn. Hi, Jew-rockers: Spencer Ackerman here from the decidedly un-rock & roll New Republic magazine. (Actually, you'd be surprised.) Kara has been kind enough to let me blog here over the next few days. By way of intro…
- [That Land Is Your Land](https://www.jewsrock.org/that-land-is-your-land.md) - By Paul Farhi Arlo Guthrie Arlo Guthrie remembers his boyhood Hebrew tutor as "a sweet guy, a nice guy." Every week for an hour or so, the young rabbi would travel to the Guthrie’s home in Queens to teach Torah to the boy and his younger brother and sister. When he turned 13 in 1960, Arlo showed of…
- [Not by himself](https://www.jewsrock.org/not-by-himself.md) - by Izzy Grinspan This week’s Village Voice music section has articles about not one but two newly relevant Jewish rock stars of ages past. George Smith’s round-up of glammy new releases ends with an endorsement of T. Rex’s Born to Boogie, now out on DVD and CD. The live album, Smith says, “sets up…
- [Name game](https://www.jewsrock.org/name-game.md) - by Izzy Grinspan "Institute" sounds to me like a German post-rock DJ collective, but it's the name of Gavin Rossdale's new band. And "Diistort Yourself" sounds like the name of a Candlebox album from 1992, but it's what Institute is calling their first album, which, according to Rossdale, is a move…
- [The Jews of Christian rock](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-jews-of-christian-rock.md) - by Izzy Grinspan The “Jewish” in “Jewish rock” means something totally different from the “Christian” in “Christian rock.” When we talk about Jewish rock bands, we generally mean bands, secular or religious, with Jewish members. Often these members are loud and proud about their Jewish identities,…
- [Talmud](https://www.jewsrock.org/talmud.md) - By Mark Caro (Reprinted with permission from Passing Stone magazine) It’s Saturday night at the packed Mogen David Center, and the Havdalah candles are swaying in the air. "Tal-Mud! Tal-Mud! Tal-Mud!" The faithful are chanting requests over the din: "Tallit Like It Is!" "Dock of the Bagels!" "Kabba…
- [First Bob Dylan does a Victoria's Secret commercial, and now this](https://www.jewsrock.org/first-bob-dylan-does-a-victorias-secret-commercial-and-now-t.md) - by Kara Baskin Rolling Stone, once the anti-corporate vanguard of underground style, is now allegedly modeling itself after Donald Trump. This is very painful, not least because the man's hair would have once gotten him evacauted from the RS premises. But the times just might be changing. The New Y…
- [No love for Dave Grohl](https://www.jewsrock.org/no-love-for-dave-grohl.md) - by Izzy Grinspan There’s no Courtney Love character in “Last Days,” the new Gus Van Sant movie about the suicide of a Kurt Cobain-esque rock star, but that doesn’t mean Ms. Love is going to let her role in the drama be forgotten. In this month’s issue of Spin, she accuses former Nirvana drummer Dav…
- [Unfaithful reporting](https://www.jewsrock.org/unfaithful-reporting.md) - by Kara Baskin Rumors of Marianne Faithfull's ill health have been greatly exaggerated. The New York Post and several other sources reported last week that the weathered legend was rushed to the hospital with chest pains and suffered a heart attack. Supposedly, these woes forced her to relinquish a…
- [Talkin' Hava Nagilah Blues](https://www.jewsrock.org/talkin-hava-nagilah-blues.md) - By Seth Rogovoy Frank Driggs Collection/ Hulton Archives/ Getty Images For Bob Dylan fans, reading the Bible—the original, not the sequel—is an experience filled with moments of déjà vu. "No human can see my face and live," God warns Moses at one point. "The soles of their feet …their appearance wa…
- [Six degrees of Myla Goldberg](https://www.jewsrock.org/six-degrees-of-myla-goldberg.md) - by Izzy Grinspan At last night's free M. Ward show in Battery Park, we counted three yarmulkes and two sheitels. Of course, we also saw eighteen different pairs of vintage sunglasses and thirty-seven tattoos, but the point remains: something about Ward's gravelly voice and old-fashioned guitar seem…
- [Snip me baby one more time](https://www.jewsrock.org/snip-me-baby-one-more-time.md) - by Izzy Grinspan The Yada Blog knows exactly why Britney Spears plans to have a "special ceremony" at the Kabbalah Center seven days after the birth of her babies.
- [Forever their girl?](https://www.jewsrock.org/forever-their-girl.md) - by Izzy Grinspan The best part about American Idol’s audition episodes—aside, of course, from Ryan Seacrest’s witty banter—is the dancing. People who can’t sing make us a little sad; people who can’t dance, on the other hand, are hilarious. Fox has taken this principle and run with it, giving us So…
- [Super Session Man](https://www.jewsrock.org/super-session-man.md) - By Bob Cook "Paul Stanley once told me that if I didn’t have any chutzpah, I wouldn’t have played on that session," says Al Kooper, rock 'n’ roll’s greatest utility man. If you don’t already know, Stanley (nee Stanley Eisen) is Kiss’ lead singer and like Kooper, a Jew raised in Queens; chutzpah Pho…
- [CBGB might not close, but the memorials have already begun](https://www.jewsrock.org/cbgb-might-not-close-but-the-memorials-have-already-begun.md) - by Izzy Grinspan New York music fans aren't sure what to make of the news that legendary rock club CBGB might have to close when their lease expires in August. On the one hand, it'll be the end of an era: the club, owned by MOT Hilly Kristal, is where American punk rock was born. On the other hand,…
- [Carly Simon anticipates Forte's release](https://www.jewsrock.org/carly-simon-anticipates-fortes-release.md) - by Kara Baskin Carly Simon has been linked with many high-profile men over the years: Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, James Taylor...and now John Forte. Forte was an up-and-coming young musician (he can be heard singing alongside Wyclef Jean on the hit remake "Stayin' Alive") when his career was derail…
- [Boots and bagels](https://www.jewsrock.org/boots-and-bagels.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Most of the Jewish spins on a genre of music are made by people in love with the kind of music they're appropriating. Matisyahu sincerely respects reggae, for example, and the Ju Tang Clan seem to genuinely care about hip-hop. Jewdriver, though, are a bit different. Since 1994, Ian…
- [Subterranean Homeland Blues](https://www.jewsrock.org/subterranean-homeland-blues.md) - By Jeffrey Goldberg Do you remember the first time you felt Jewish anger? Not the inchoate, pre-adolescent, Patrick-Malone-called-me-a-kike-on-the-playground-rage—which is anger, certainly, but it is anger directed against some dipshit-junior-varsity pogromist with bad teeth who you knew, even then…
- [Pink Floyd would reunite for peace; Courtney Love still falling apart](https://www.jewsrock.org/pink-floyd-would-reunite-for-peace-courtney-love-still-falli.md) - by Kara Baskin Ynet reports that Pink Floyd would consider reuniting for an Israeli-Palestinian peace concert. Drummer Nick Mason expressed enthusiasm for such an idea, saying that he regretted that the band had never been able to tour Israel in the past. Mason says the band would regroup for any "…
- [The unique and inimitable Mollycoddles band](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-unique-and-inimitable-mollycoddles-band.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Israel’s first rockabilly band, the Mollycoddles, have set up their website to look like the dashboard of an old-time jalopy. They promise their fans “happy pastime, good humor and immediate weight loss,” and they sing through thick Hebrew accents. It’s generally pretty cute, altho…
- [Yidcore even owns the special extended DVD version of Beaches](https://www.jewsrock.org/yidcore-even-owns-the-special-extended-dvd-version-of-beache.md) - by Arye Dworken If Jewish metal wasn't enough for you, we bring you the finest...okay, the not-so-finest in Jewish punk. Yidcore, a group of four Australian upstarts, who like the Makkabees cover Jewish songs, have just released two new CD's entitled Fiddlin' on the Roof and Eighth Day Slice which…
- [Stage Names of Jewish Rockers](https://www.jewsrock.org/stage-names-of-jewish-rockers.md) - By Izzy Grinspan Perry Bernstein: Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros) Harold Belsky: Hal Blaine (session drummer for the Beach Boys) David Blatt: Jay Black (Jay and the Americans) Richard Blum: Handsome Dick Manitoba (Dictators) Michael Bolotin: Michael Bolton Leonard Borisoff: Len Bar…
- [I bet you didn't realize how badly you've missed INXS.](https://www.jewsrock.org/i-bet-you-didnt-realize-how-badly-youve-missed-inxs.md) - by Arye Dworken Let us all take a moment of silence for Michael Hutchence, the deceased singer of INXS. Okay, now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's replace him! Starting Monday, July 11th at 9PM, CBS will join the ranks of reputable programming and present to us Rock Star: INXS, a realit…
- [Ju metal](https://www.jewsrock.org/ju-metal.md) - by Izzy Grinspan It should be apparent by now that some of us (OK, one of us) is slightly obsessed with Jewish metal. It just makes so much sense that Jews would take to heavy metal, given the hair and the ritual and the intensity. Listen, if you will, to the Makkabees, described as “if Rammstein a…
- [Diamond Dave's surprisingly coherent website](https://www.jewsrock.org/diamond-daves-surprisingly-coherent-website.md) - by Arye Dworken David Lee Roth, the definitively greatest frontman of all time has just launched a most rockalicious website. DavidLeeRoth.com, toted as the "Official Website of the Kung Fu Sage" offers a typically hilarious biography ("I've been places with my face you wouldn't go to with a pistol…
- [Rock, Radio, Riot](https://www.jewsrock.org/rock-radio-riot.md) - By Marc Fisher Alan Freed wasn’t the first white guy to play race records on the radio. That honor belongs to a gent named Hunter Hancock, who knew not a thing about R&B when he started spinning the work of black artists in Los Angeles in 1948. For years, "Ol’ H.H." was the subject of fevered whisp…
- [And on the Seventh Day, He did not rest because He could not miss Snoop Dogg](https://www.jewsrock.org/and-on-the-seventh-day-he-did-not-rest-because-he-could-not.md) - by Arye Dworken According the official website, Live8live.com, Live 8 was the day that rocked the world. Taking place this Saturday last, the concert to end world poverty attracted 3 billion viewers, all who disappointed their respective fathers when they did not show up to shul that morning. Bob G…
- [Torah phish food](https://www.jewsrock.org/torah-phish-food.md) - by Kara Baskin Jewcy reports that Hassidic reggae artist Matisyahu (ne Matthew Miller) will tour with Phish's Trey Anastasio this summer. A sample of Matisyahu's lyrics: "Torah food for my brain let it rain til I drown, Thunder! Let the rain come down!" Catch them in a city near you: Boston, St. Lo…
- [As if Swept Away weren't humiliating enough](https://www.jewsrock.org/as-if-swept-away-werent-humiliating-enough.md) - by Kara Baskin Jeannette Walls's Scoop puts forth the disturbing but totally unsurprising news that Madonna has designed a special yarmulke for husband Guy Richie. He sports the yarmulke at Kabbalah meetings, and she plans to market one for the masses through the Kabbalah Centre. Ashton Kutcher has…
- [Riffed Off](https://www.jewsrock.org/riffed-off.md) - By Dave McKenna Photo courtesy Bernice Pearl. Bernice Pearl thinks "Stairway to Heaven" is the "greatest rock and roll makeout song ever." She just wishes her son, Randy California, got some credit for crafting the melody that's soundtracked a gazillion smooches. "Led Zeppelin lifted that from Rand…
- [Dave Mustaine, Jewish?](https://www.jewsrock.org/dave-mustaine-jewish.md) - by Izzy Grinspan Israel National Radio's Ben Bresky reveals another link between heavy metal and the Holy Land: Dave Mustaine, founder of Megadeth, is Jewish on his mother's side. Backstage at the Metalist festival, Mustaine explained his Jewish rock status to Bresky: "Although my Mom was Jewish, I…
- [Satchmo-lestation](https://www.jewsrock.org/satchmo-lestation.md) - by Izzy Grinspan The reasons to be embarrassed that Kenny G is Jewish aren’t quite what you think they are. Forget the sentimental nature of his sax playing, which does a great job of making old people happy at weddings. Ignore the geeky waterfall of curls, a look that was actually very cute on my…
- [Mansion in the Village](https://www.jewsrock.org/mansion-in-the-village.md) - by Kara Baskin The intrepid super-sleuths at the New York Post are reporting that Jewsrock.org favorite Max Weinberg has shed his chic West Village weekend hideaway for a respectable $2.45 million. New York Magazine takes readers inside the House of Max, noting that the three-story Bedford Street d…
- [Adam Levine on Hill and Hilton](https://www.jewsrock.org/adam-levine-on-hill-and-hilton.md) - What's the most embarrassing album you own? Aw, I’m really not ashamed of anything I own. What song do you wish you’d written? I don’t think there’s any one song. Well, I wish I’d written "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder. I wish I’d written "I Wish." What’s the first album you bought? Run DMC’s "Raising H…
- [Paula Abdul vying to be the Bono of nail salon reform](https://www.jewsrock.org/paula-abdul-vying-to-be-the-bono-of-nail-salon-reform.md) - by Izzy Grinspan In the history of celebrity causes, it's not exactly AIDS in Africa, but Paula Abdul is gamely stepping up to the plate to promote nail salon safety regulation. Abdul testified in front of the California Senate on Monday, supporting a bill that would require nail salons to be safer…
- [Al Franken on the Grateful Dead](https://www.jewsrock.org/al-franken-on-the-grateful-dead.md) - What’s the first album you bought? When? Why? Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends. It was also the first Jewish album I ever bought. The first gentile album I ever bought was Abbey Road, and the second gentile album was Creedence Clearwater Revival. I listened to Bookends over and over [starts singing the…
- [Randy California's Favorite Kugel](https://www.jewsrock.org/randy-californias-favorite-kugel.md) - Guitar hero Randy California's mother Bernice Pearl used to make him this kugel two or three times a year. The secret? Lots of melted butter. Ingredients: 8 ounces wide egg noodles 2 eggs 1 cup sour cream butter ("lots" says Pearl) cheddar cheese to taste Boil the pasta. Mix together the sour cream…
- [Because you just don't hear Judeo-Arab Andalusian music enough anymore](https://www.jewsrock.org/because-you-just-dont-hear-judeo-arab-andalusian-music-enoug.md) - by Kara Baskin DJ Cheb i Sabbah--dubbed the "original deejay" in this new profile by the Chicago Tribune--is doing his part to mix Jews, Arabs, and everyone in between ... on the dance floor, anyway. The Berber Jew grew up in Algeria listening to "live music, Judeo-Arab Andalusian music," and the g…
- [Beck Represents](https://www.jewsrock.org/beck-represents.md) - by Barbara Rushkoff *In the mid-nineties, zine author Barbara Rushkoff was a DIY dynamo: a self-published person of the book. Her zine Plotz lasted for sixteen issues of rants, raves and Yiddishisms and lives on today at Plotzworld.com. Plotz scored some major coups, but the biggest might have been…
- [All the Ramones you'll ever need](https://www.jewsrock.org/all-the-ramones-youll-ever-need.md) - Pitchfork reports that Rhino is releasing "the definitive Ramones box set." Weird Tales of the Ramones, due out on August 16, contains four CDs of Ramones songs. By our calculations, that's over 100 Ramones songs, which means it should take at least half an hour to listen to the whole thing.
- [Mock and roll](https://www.jewsrock.org/mock-and-roll.md) - Liam Gallagher has had his fair share of embarrassing moments, but this is definitely our favorite. According to his brother Noel, Liam adored the film Spinal Tap up until recently – when he learned that the band was actually a bunch of actors. Of course, the mockumentary is a testament to both har…
- [Raising Hell](https://www.jewsrock.org/raising-hell.md) - By Eli Attie Photo courtesy Roberta Bayley Let's begin with a disclaimer: Richard Hell is only half-Jewish. His mother is, in fact, a bona fide WASP. Under the laws of return, the guy's staying right where he is. And Hell, born Richard Meyers, surely didn't change his name for religious reasons. Bu…
- [And yet more Jewish metal news](https://www.jewsrock.org/and-yet-more-jewish-metal-news.md) - The JPost reports that Dio are bringing their "lasers, explosions and...giant dragon" to Israel this October. Seriously, folks, it's like the Messiah came: all the metalheads are rolling back to the Holy Land.
- [For Megadeth fans in Tel Aviv, the system has failed](https://www.jewsrock.org/for-megadeth-fans-in-tel-aviv-the-system-has-failed.md) - This year’s Israeli Metalist festival ended on a sour note when stage railings collapsed during Megadeth’s set last night at 2 AM. Because the Challah Famers were closing the show, police chose to end the concert early rather than repair the railings. Disappointed metal fans pointed out to Ynet tha…
- [Jewish metal news, part II](https://www.jewsrock.org/jewish-metal-news-part-ii.md) - Here at Jewsrock.org, we love Anthrax. Admittedly, it's as much about Scott Ian's sense of humor as it is his ouvre, but regardless: love. Which is why we feel like proud parents announcing that the brand-new Anthrax website is up and running. You can customize the look of the site using their tatt…
- [Nudie and the Technicolor Jacket](https://www.jewsrock.org/nudie-and-the-technicolor-jacket.md) - By Eddie Dean To any who would deny the unholy allure of the Nudie suit, consider the case of Little Jimmy Dickens. His name is not often invoked when talk turns to Nudie’s most famous creations, such as the gold-leaf tux he designed for Elvis back in ’57. Even with all its fiery revenge-of-Prometh…
- [Time out of mind](https://www.jewsrock.org/time-out-of-mind.md) - It was on this day back in 1981 that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker announced the dissolution of Steely Dan, perhaps the only band in history to be named after a steam-powered dildo. Both admitted at the time that music was no longer their primary passion, and the L.A. decadence that they captured…
- [Wind of change: Scorpions visit Israel](https://www.jewsrock.org/wind-of-change-scorpions-visit-israel.md) - German hard-rockers the Scorpions will play Israel for the first time on July 7, reports the Jerusalem Post. Best known for the classic rock staple “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and the Cold War ballad “Wind of Change,” the band is commemorating its Israeli debut with a surprising single: “Jerusalem…
- [Starbucks filters out Springsteen](https://www.jewsrock.org/starbucks-filters-out-springsteen.md) - Though they've championed the work of classic rock icons like Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, and Joni Mitchell, Starbucks has retreated from a deal to sell Devils and Dust, Bruce Springsteen's newest release. Page Six reports today that the ubiquitous chain refuses to stock the CD due to "a song grap…
- [Jon Stewart on Bruce Springsteen](https://www.jewsrock.org/jon-stewart-on-bruce-springsteen.md) - What’s the first album you bought? When? Why? JON: Olivia Newton John. She was pretty. What was the best concert you ever saw? What made it so great? JON: Springsteen at Vet Stadium. I also enjoyed cars, girls and New Jersey. What is your cell phone ring set to? JON: Vibrate. Fill in the blank: Wha…
- [Zorn again](https://www.jewsrock.org/zorn-again.md) - Radical Jewish culture has a new epicenter. Using funds from his Tzadik label, John Zorn has just opened The Stone, a non-profit performance space in New York’s Alphabet City. Zorn is serious about this stuff: the club doesn’t even sell t-shirts or refreshments. $10 gets you a night of experimental…
- [I might be wrong](https://www.jewsrock.org/i-might-be-wrong.md) - Pitchfork reports that the new Strokes album will feature Nick Valensi on Mellotron, speculating that Valensi is trying to be the band’s Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead’s Mellotron-happy guitarist). This in turn leads us to wonder: Is Greenwood an MOT? Consider the facts: He spells his name with no “h,”…
- [He likes us.  He really likes us!](https://www.jewsrock.org/he-likes-us-he-really-likes-us.md) - Check out this short New York Times article on the music Bruce Springsteen plays before concerts. Bob Dylan? Sleater-Kinney? Woody "I'm not Jewish, but my mother-in-law makes us Shabbos every Friday night" Guthrie? Does anyone else notice a theme here? As usual, the Boss is about as close to being…
- [Jeff Garlin on the Partridges](https://www.jewsrock.org/jeff-garlin-on-the-partridges.md) - By Jeff Garlin Jeff Garlin with Larry David. What’s the first album you bought? "I Think I Love You" by the Partridge Family. The Partridge Family? Really? Well, that’s what all my friends were listening to in the first grade. OK, also Loggins and Messina, "Your Momma Don’t Dance." What's the most…
- [Unnecessary exclamation marks: bad for the Jews.](https://www.jewsrock.org/unnecessary-exclamation-marks-bad-for-the-jews.md) - The Beastie Boys aren't the only Jewish musicians who have recently been accused of ripping off other artists. According to the Jewish Blogmiester, Jewish music powerhouse Yehuda! (exclamation point definitely not ours) may have stolen his song "Umacha" from Chris De Burgh. Who? Don't you know your…
- [The commercialization, it is a-changin'](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-commercialization-it-is-a-changin.md) - The Yada blogreports that Bob Dylan is "shilling for Amazon.com." Since we're still traumatized by those Victoria Secret ads, we found ourselves picturing a mustachioed Dylan crooning in a dark palazzo in Venice while a scantily clad woman prowled around a bunch of bookshelves. We were, in a word,…
- [The Jackson connection: Shmuley B.](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-jackson-connection-shmuley-b.md) - A few years ago, Michael Jackson and everyone's favorite celeburebbe Shmuley Boteach sat down with a tape recorder to plan a book. As Boteach explains on his website, Michael "desired to serve as a spokesman for the unmet needs of children." You can see how a quote like that might have remained hid…
- [His Sharona](https://www.jewsrock.org/his-sharona.md) - By John Kelly Photo courtesy of Capitol Records. Doug Fieger is a mensch. It doesn’t matter if I believe that or you believe that. All that matters is that Sharona Alperin’s parents believed it back in 1978 when they met the leader of a Los Angeles band called the Knack. If they hadn’t believed the…
- [Nothing says "Old Testament" like a Mountain Goat.](https://www.jewsrock.org/nothing-says-old-testament-like-a-mountain-goat.md) - This month's issue of the McSweeney's non-fiction mag The Believer comes with a truly excellent complication CD -- they seem to have called all our favorite bands and asked them to cover all of our other favorite bands. The Decembrists perform a song by their platonic soul mate Joanna Newsom. Cynth…
- [Bad for the pseudo-Jews](https://www.jewsrock.org/bad-for-the-pseudo-jews.md) - Rush and Molloy of the New York Daily News report not one but two exposes of kabbalah: "20/20" is airing a piece tomorrow, and Radar Magazine has the first in a four-part series up now. The not-wildly-surprising news? Apparently the Berg family, founders of the Kabbalah Centre, are one corrupt pair…
- [Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty...](https://www.jewsrock.org/put-your-makeup-on-fix-your-hair-up-pretty.md) - Atlantic City used to be a sort of Valhalla of musicians from the '50s and '60s, where the local oldies station would come to life in order to rock (or at least "rock") the casinos. You got the impression that most concertgoers were Jewish grandparents who'd been just waiting for their return to th…
- [Heavy Shtetl](https://www.jewsrock.org/heavy-shtetl.md) - By Steve Almond Britny Fox promotional postcard, 1991. I spent a thousand nights as a rock critic in El Paso, Texas, which was where I lived for three years at the tail end of the eighties and where I grew old enough to recognize that heavy metal was, essentially, tribal in nature and that it had e…
- [This Yiddish Life](https://www.jewsrock.org/this-yiddish-life.md) - Tune in to This American Life this upcoming weekend for Jewsrock.org founder David Segal’s story about a Hasidic Brooklynite who traded in his fur hat for a trucker hat. Curly Oxide of the band Vic Thrill was born Chaim of Williamsburg. When a local hipster invited him to join his band, Chaim made…
- [San Fran court upholds Beastie Boys' license to ill.](https://www.jewsrock.org/san-fran-court-upholds-beastie-boys-license-to-ill.md) - And now from the neverending file of Jewsrock-related lawsuits: Remember the Beastie Boy's track "Pass the Mic" from 1992's Check Your Head? That flute sample is from "Choir," a solo flute composition by a jazz and classical flutist named James Newton. Six seconds of Newton's music is looped 40 tim…
- [The new true Jew?](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-new-true-jew.md) - "Read the personal story about how God used Mel Gibson's The Passion to show 50 Shekel the arm of His salvation." Uh oh. It's bad enough that 50 Shekel-- the Hebraic rapper best known for his parodity "In da Shul" -- has converted, but did he have to bring Mel into it? Meanwhile, while 50 is baskin…
- [Handsome Dick's Handsome Chopped Liver](https://www.jewsrock.org/handsome-dicks-handsome-chopped-liver.md) - Handsome Dick Manitoba, lead singer of the proto-punk band the Dictators, made this chopped liver for a seder at the home of rock writer Lisa Robinson. Be sure to slice the onions fine for a truly creamy dish. Ingredients: 1.5 lb chicken liver .5 lb beef liver 1 mid-sized onion 2 or 3 hard-boiled e…
- [Songs of love and hate](https://www.jewsrock.org/songs-of-love-and-hate.md) - On the cover of Danny Cohen's new album, We're All Gunna Die, a bearded fellow plucks the strings of an acoustic guitar in a Jewish cemetery. The album's name is listed as an epitaph on the tombstone behind him, which also bears a Star of David. Cohen was discovered by Tom Waits; Blogcritics compar…
- [Six degrees of Jewish rockstars.](https://www.jewsrock.org/six-degrees-of-jewish-rockstars.md) - OK, we know M.I.A. isn't remotely Jewish -- she compares herself to the PLO, for crying out loud. But, like Jewish hipsters everywhere, we're pretty into her, and we knew there had to be some sort of Jewish connection. We were right. Leslie Fiest, former Broken Social Scene vocalist and current sol…
- [Reality redux](https://www.jewsrock.org/reality-redux.md) - Right now, if you go to the website for NBC's new show Hit Me Baby One More Time, you'll hear the jaunty beat of the Knack's "My Sharona," possibly the only song about a hot Jewish girl performed by a band consisting entirely of Jewish guys. It's a Yidstravaganza and we're totally rooting for them…
- [Funny, He Didn't Look Jewish](https://www.jewsrock.org/funny-he-didnt-look-jewish.md) - By Wil Haygood In 1954, as a nightclub star on the brink of Hollywood stardom, Sammy Davis, Jr. became a Jew. The announcement—the ricocheting word of mouth—startled his friends. He had never mentioned Judaism before. His own background had been one without religion. His mother was a lapsed Catholi…
- [Great minds](https://www.jewsrock.org/great-minds.md) - Jmerica points out that the title of our Phil Spector story is very similar to theirs, and that it's a coincidence. So true. This is probably just the result of 3,000 years of inbreeding -- that, and, oh, superior brainpower. (Disclaimer: The Yiddish Invasion does not actually believe that Ashkenaz…
- [Madonna: Still controversial after all these years](https://www.jewsrock.org/madonna-still-controversial-after-all-these-years.md) - This is definitely a new one in Madonna's multi-decade reign as diva: coming between the Israeli foreign minister and the country’s ambassador in DC. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom wants to replace Israel’s ambassador, Danny Ayalon, following Ayalon’s complaint that Shalom’s wife insisted that he f…
- [The mother of all Jewfros](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-mother-of-all-jewfros.md) - We're not exactly thrilled that Phil Spector is a member of the tribe, but it's hard not to feel some sort of exhilaration looking at the tumbleweed sprouting out of his scalp on recent trial pictures. It's so huge and splendid and awe-inspiring, it almost makes us forget why he's on trial. Almost.…
- [Dropping the bomb scripture at your Bar Mitzvah](https://www.jewsrock.org/dropping-the-bomb-scripture-at-your-bar-mitzvah.md) - Friday night we'll be drinkin' Manishewitz Goin' out to terrorize Goyim Stompin' shagitz, screwin' shiksas As long as we're home by Saturday mornin'. 'Cause hey, we're the Brews Sportin' anti-swastika tattoos Oi Oi, we're the boys Orthodox, Hasidic, O.G. Ois Orthopedic Dr. Martins Good for Waffle m…
- [Achtung, Baby](https://www.jewsrock.org/achtung-baby.md) - What is that on Bono's arm in recent photos of the Elevation tour? Is he actually wearing a Star of David, and if so, why on earth would he do something like that? Since it's joined by a crescent and a cross, we can only surmise that the noted do-gooder is simply wearing his pan-theistic pride lite…
- [Cashing In](https://www.jewsrock.org/cashing-in.md) - Oh, how we wish Johnny Cash had been Jewish. He was certainly close—check out that last name, so redolent of old-country money-lending, or the all-black wardrobe, perfect for a Hasid. Apparently, Rick Rubin knows just how we feel. Rubin produced Johnny Cash’s "American Recordings" series, which mad…
- [The international language of music](https://www.jewsrock.org/the-international-language-of-music.md) - IPods have never been exactly low-maintenance – consider the short-lived batteries, the fragile interior workings, the heavy replacement price. For Israelis, they’re especially difficult, thanks to an operating system that doesn’t support Hebrew. Israeli software developer Edo Mendelson has gotten…
- [Don't Fear the Rockdots](https://www.jewsrock.org/dont-fear-the-rockdots.md) - By Spencer Ackerman Blue Öyster Cult gave a lot to rock. The music was a blend of eerie metal, sci-fi, evil and the occasional jazz chord. They wrote songs with names like "She’s As Beautiful as a Foot" and "Hot Rails to Hell," and they meant it. They took their six-string machismo seriously enough…
- [David Brooks on 50 Cent](https://www.jewsrock.org/david-brooks-on-50-cent.md) - Photo courtesy David Brooks. What’s the first album you bought? When? Why? My first record was a Jackson 5 song called "Mama’s Pearl" and a Bee Gees song the name of which I’ve now forgotten. I know it was in their rock period, before they’d lost their testicles. My first album was American Pie by…
- [Any Major Dude](https://www.jewsrock.org/any-major-dude.md) - By Rabbi Justin David Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you, my friend, Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again, When the demon is at your door, In the morning it won’t be there no more, Any major dude will tell you. The summer after my grandfather died, I found mysel…
- [And the Dreidel Will Rock](https://www.jewsrock.org/and-the-dreidel-will-rock.md) - By David Segal Since the dawn of distortion, men have fronted metal bands for simple reasons, like sex, drugs, and the joy of wrecking hotel rooms. David Lee Roth has had of his share of groupies, consumed his share of drugs, and trashed a whole Holiday Inn’s worth of suites. But, throughout his ca…
- [A One for the Money, a Two for the Money](https://www.jewsrock.org/a-one-for-the-money-a-two-for-the-money.md) - By Eli Attie Photo courtesy Michael Wylie. It’s quite possible that Kiss, rock and roll’s P.T. Barnum equivalent, is not merely the most Jewish band in rock history but a metaphor for all of Jewish existence. Let’s take the essential traits in order: Survivalism. Denied and disrespected at every tu…
- [A Night in the Life](https://www.jewsrock.org/a-night-in-the-life.md) - By Al Aronowitz, z”l Writers, historians, and journalists like to report that it was Bob Dylan who introduced the Beatles to pot, but that isn’t exactly true. Dylan was in the room and he got high on that night, August 28, 1964, in Manhattan’s Delmonico Hotel. But blame for turning that historic mo…

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