Israeli Classic Song Showcase - "Nolad'ti LaShalom"

Today we're starting a series of classic songs that came out of Israel during its formative years and in the years that followed. Some of them were prize winners at song festivals and others are just beautiful products of Israeli musical talent. 

The songs will be posted here periodically along with our usual mix of humor, jokes, funny happenings, and Jewish traces in unexpected places.

It's fitting that we're posting our first selection in this series, Nolad'ti LaShalom, on the 5th Yahrzeit of Shulamit Kustanowitz.

Shuly, the inspiration for Jewish Humor Central, was not only a wonderful wife, mother, savta, author and journalist, but also served as a gentle censor of some of our posts that otherwise might have entered the blogosphere with questionable content.

She was born as World War II was ending, and wrote:

I was born on May 1, 1945, so my stone should read, in Hebrew, “I was born for the peace (noladti lashalom).” We, of this generation, will remember it as part of a song of modern Israel, that I have been born for a peace that’s just starting to come but is meant for the ages. For the historically aware, however, the association will be the peace the world felt on its first day without Hitler, and it was for that date that I was named.

Here is the classic Israeli song Nolad'ti LaShalom, sung by the group called Sexta. The Hebrew lyrics appear as subtitles and the English translation is below the video.

Enjoy!

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I WAS BORN TO PEACE

I was born to the melodies and to the songs of all countries I was born to the language and the place too to the few and many who will give peace a hand. Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah ah ah....... Chorus (X2) I was born to peace - let it arrive I was born to peace - let it come I was born to peace - let it appear I want, I want to be in it already. I was born to the dream and in it I see that peace will come I was born to the desire and the belief that it will come after thirty years. Chorus... I was born to a people two thousand years old. that have a land and it has a piece of heaven and it sees, watches the day unfold and it's a beautiful moment, moment of peace. Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah ah ah....... Chorus...

Once Again, a Time to Laugh. Jewish Humor Central Returns Tomorrow!

A Special Message from the Blogger-in-Chief:

When we suspended posts in Jewish Humor Central in May to observe the shloshim mourning period for Shuly Kustanowitz, my late wife, muse, and inspiration, we quoted the famous verse from Kohelet (Ecclesiastes)...

To every thing there is a season...

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Although the sadness remains, the mourning period is officially over, so it's time to continue our mission of spreading joy and laughter and trying to brighten the days of our subscribers and casual viewers.

As of tomorrow, the emails will once again appear in our subscriber's inboxes and the posts will once again be spread through Facebook and Twitter. And there's something new! We're introducing a mobile version that will show up when you surf to jewishhumorcentral.com on your web-enabled mobile devices.

Please stay in touch and continue to tell us what you like and what you don't like. We'll try to keep the posts family-friendly, but some Jewish humor has an edge to it, so if some posts are even a little bit off-color, we'll include a warning to that effect.

Al Kustanowitz

A Time to Mourn, A Time to Weep

A Special Message From the Blogger-in-Chief:

Every year we read in the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) the well known verse:

To every thing there is a season...

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Ever since we started Jewish Humor Central, we've  been focusing each day on the laughing and dancing.

But we're sad that today for us it's a time to weep and a time to mourn the passing of our muse and inspiration for everything we do, Shulamith M. Kustanowitz.

Shuly, my loving and talented wife, who despite being jealous of all the time I spend with my computer, has edited many of my blog entries and served as a gentle censor of some of the entries that might have otherwise entered the blogosphere with questionable content.

We will miss her terribly, and in her memory and honor we will be observing the shloshim (thirty day) mourning period. That means no posts for the next month. 

I know she wouldn't want me to give up the blog entirely, so again in her honor and as a tribute to her love and devotion, I plan to resume this blog in about a month. I hope you'll rejoin me then in starting each day with a smile.

Al Kustanowitz