This will be a quieter, acoustic set of Hebrew School songs, maybe even some new ones.
Hebrew School
Barbes
376 9th Street (at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn
May 16, 2010, 7pm
http://barbesbrooklyn.com
Give the gift of Hebrew School this Christmas. Order yours today.
Filed under: pressed | Tags: david griffin, hebrew school, heeb, heeb 100, magazine
Sometimes you’re reading a Jewish print magazine and you think to yourself, “Wow, this magazine really sucks.” Then that magazine goes out of print circulation.
Not so with Heeb. So yes, I’m happy to be part of the Heeb 100, rubbin’ shoulders with the likes of folks from ponytail, the pains of being pure at heart, the antlers, the coathangers, micachu, and ever so many more.
“With songs in which traditional melodies are demolished and remade into electronic parables, Hebrew School is a thorough lesson in ingenuity.”
From what I gather, this will all be in paper format some time mid-month, but for now see here.
Filed under: > Project, who's your jew? | Tags: back in the day, barack obama, david griffin, hebrew school, heroes, inglourious basterds, israel, jewish, jewish community heroes, mélanie laurent, superheroes, west bank
“Who’s your Jew” is a series of posts where Hebrew School attempts to digest, swallow and/or spit out his experiences around this project’s creation and, by extension, mainstream Jewish organizational culture in the United States.
It’s important for us as Jews to organize. Here we are 10-20 years ago. We laughed about our hair styles when someone posted these pictures of us on Facebook last week. Brings back memories though!
Seriously, though, we were being honored as Potential Future Jewish Leaders, (PFJLs) because it’s the youth who will carry on our traditions. I think it was Rabbi Akiba (or possibly Whitney Houston) who said, if you can’t convince the youth, you can’t convince anyone.
I’m immensely proud of the .5%-1% of us that have gone on to be active and contribute to Jewish Life. Just last week for example, I had the privilege of being a Hora Motivator/Catering Service Technician at Harvey’s (above, 2nd from left) oldest kid’s bat mitzvah.
We’ll never forget our free first trip to Israel. It really opened our eyes and none of us was the same when we returned. Gave us a sense of purpose.
It’s important as Jews that we have heroes. People that the younger generations can look up to. Did you nominate your Jewish hero today?
I’m worried about how we might keep our children “engaged.” That’s why we need centralized, well-funded leadership that can determine the appropriate messages for our publications, and also possibly do photoshoots featuring images of attractive young adults.
Hope we don’t see the “rise of Old Europe” again in our lifetime.
It’s great to have secular cultural events to bring our people together, since there are all sorts Jews from different walks of life. Some of us are bankers and lawyers, but some of us are art critics and sports professionals too. Some of us keep Kosher, and some of us are vegetarian. We try to organize Jewish events with open bars and free food in major cities every 4-6 weeks. In a way this sort of reminds me of my sad Jewish grandpa who would give me a 20-dollar bill just so I would sit and listen to him, but remember this is a different generation.
Harvey’s cousin– the one who was really quiet in high school– moved with his family to the West Bank a few years ago and recently started helping put up these signs. But I still worry about today’s kids. Where are our next “inglourious basterds?”
earlier Who’s your Jew: Hebrew School quiz!
Yesterday, I received the nicest note from a highly-respected fellow musician here in Brooklyn who had checked out my CD. It has some of the kindest words I’ve received to date about the project, especially since it conveys a lot of my intention for the album’s listeners. With her permission, I reprint it below:
David, I keep meaning to write to you about your album. The first time I put it on I thought it was pleasant but didn’t have much of a reaction. But then I put it on again, and again. And it’s funny, but it’s just about the only thing I listen to at home. I don’t actually listen to music very much (I try to keep my place mostly silent) but when I do, Hebrew School is all I want to hear. I put it on when I do the dishes. I put it on when I do situps and pushups. I put it on when I have friends over for dinner. I keep wondering why this is. If it matches my mood, or if it’s the mood I want to be in, or what. What I like is the coolness and elegance, the restraint of the vibe combined with the bits of warmth and compassion that spark out of the lyrics. I have no idea what the songs are about, I don’t really listen to the words, but to me they feel like someone who is quietly talking to him- or herself or to the universe in a very nice gentle way. And it’s just a really pleasant and happy experience for me. I don’t know if this is actually anything you intended, or that is actually in the songs, but that’s what’s there for me. I thought you might be interested in hearing one person’s reaction. And I wanted to thank you for making the recording because it’s added something really nice to my life.
Awesome, Brooklyn! I’m feelin the love.
