This year, Grammy award winning Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari andIsraeli rap/hip-hop star Kobi "Subliminal" Shimoni have co-produced a hip-hop music video expressing their sentiments on the Shoah. It is called "God Almighty When Will it End."
It is non-traditional and--for many--disturbing. In Israel, CD/Video was distributed by the thousands to students in schools, by recommendation, approval and blessing of -- amongst others --Professor Yehuda Bauer (Israel's leading historian on the Holocaust) and Rabbi BennyLau (son of Holocaust survivor and former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael M eirLau). As highly traditional people, they both praised this genuine effort to make the message of the Holocaust relevant to a disconnected younger generation.
As the generation of survivors pass away and new generations grow up without the personal contact to these truth-tellers, it is important to examine new ways to transmit the Holocaust. Even if this is not the way I would have chosen, it is worth examination. May we continue to grapple with the memory of the Six Million victims and its impact on our humanity.
Rabbi Bruce
Much of the above text comes from an email distributed by Rabbi Daniel Bouskila of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel (Los Angeles)
As usual, there has been a number of blog posts about this including two (here and here) on jewschool.
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5/08/2007
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What I found When I followed some links
I was checking who sent people to my blog tonight. I followed a link to another Hillel rabbi who has a blog. I then noticed a blog for someone I studied with at Pardes. From there I got to Radical Torah. Check it out. It is very interesting.
I recently heard some of Truman Capote's letters read on NPR. He talked about a game that sounds like Six Degrees of Separation. According to Truman, someone called out the name of a celebrity and than you had to keep going by mentioning who they were married to our had an affair with until you couldn't do it anymore. Too bad he lived in a pre-web world. Who knows what would have happened.
Shavua tov,
Rabbi Bruce
I recently heard some of Truman Capote's letters read on NPR. He talked about a game that sounds like Six Degrees of Separation. According to Truman, someone called out the name of a celebrity and than you had to keep going by mentioning who they were married to our had an affair with until you couldn't do it anymore. Too bad he lived in a pre-web world. Who knows what would have happened.
Shavua tov,
Rabbi Bruce
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