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Choni Goldman, aka Choni G, the fresh-faced ‘pop’
chazan of the historic Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, or Gardens Shul
(the city’s oldest and most famous synagogue) and the 2012 winner of The Jewish Star competition, is known for gooseflesh-inducing renditions of ancient Jewish prayers and melodies. His debut album ‘5780’ is no exception.
The 16 track album showcases his distinctive sound: uplifting and
emotive melodies that have their roots in Jewish spirituality, yet
resonate with audiences from all walks of life.
‘5780’ came out in CD and USB format in December but only recently became available on all digital platforms.
“The album features a mix of dance, hip hop beats and a lot of soul with an African thread throughout,” says Choni.
A few of the album’s songs were recorded with an African choir called the Khayelitsha United Mambazo Choir.
The 11-piece group aim to follow in the footsteps of their
heroes and friends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
In this video Choni and the Khayelitsha United Mambazo Choir sing Adon Olam.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein is the current Chief Rabbi of South Africa and
a global Jewish leader.
Affectionately referred to as ‘Chief’ and a ‘spiritual entrepreneur’ he
has launched and led a number of innovative social projects with global
reach and impact.
The youngest person to ever be elected to the
position, Chief Rabbi Goldstein is a strong advocate for creative,
proactive leadership and effective partnership to find unique solutions
to the challenges of our time.
On October 9 Rabbi Goldstein led his Johannesburg congregation in the Acheinu prayer for the redemption of the civilians and soldiers who have been captured.
As
for our brothers, the whole house of Israel, who are given over to
trouble or captivity, whether they abide on the sea or on the dry land:
May the All-present have mercy upon them, and bring them forth from distress to relief, from darkness to light, and from subjection
to redemption, now speedily and at a near time.
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Jerusalema is a song in the Zulu language by South African DJ and record producer Master KG featuring South African vocalist Nomcebo. The upbeat gospel-influenced house
song was initially released on November 29, 2019 after it garnered
positive response online, with a music video following on December 21.
The music video of the song has generated half a billion views on
YouTube.
It was later included on Master KG's second album of the same
title, released in January 2020. A single edit was released on streaming services on July 10, 2020, after it went viral during mid-2020, garnering international reaction due to the #JerusalemaChallenge. The dance challenge was started by a group of young men in Angola and it was their video of them dancing to the song which sparked a global trend.
A remix featuring Nigerian singer Burna Boy
was released on 19 June 2020. It reached number one in Belgium,
Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland, while peaking in the top ten of
multiple other European countries. A second remix featuring Venezuelan
singer Micro TDH and Colombian singer Greeicy was released on 17 September 2020.
At the third ceremony of the African Entertainment Awards USA "Jerusalema" won the Song of the Year award.
After winning awards all around the world and inspiring dances in many countries, the song finally found its way to Israel where it was translated to Hebrew and found favor with Israelis across the religious and non-religious sectors.
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Today's Shabbat
welcome comes from Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa,
where members of the Bet David congregation sing one of the traditional
versions of Mizmor Shir, part of the Kabbalat Shabbat service.
Founded in 1971, Congregation Bet David is a Progressive Jewish
congregation. Bet David is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive congregation
that invites individuals and families of all observance levels to
worship and learn together.
The Bet David community is a diverse congregation engaged in social
issues, culture and learning – a congregation rediscovering Jewish
values that give meaning and provide a strong foundation to face the
challenges of contemporary life.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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We've
been posting clips of Jewish comedians going back to the days of
vaudeville and burlesque, from Jack Benny to Alan King, and including
dozens more. We've posted many of them since we started Jewish Humor
Central 14 years ago.
But
a new generation of Jewish comedians is on the rise. And they're very
funny. It's a rare one who can get through a routine without off-color
words or phrases, but some are trying very hard to let the jokes and
situations carry the day without resorting to outright foul language. Some
of the new comedians are only new to us, since we haven't been watching
all the late night TV shows and going to comedy clubs where they make their
first appearances. But as we discover them, we'll share some of their
video clips with you.
Today
we're sharing a video clip of Ariel Kagan. Ariel
grew up and learned the basics of the trade in his hometown of
Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to Toronto in late
2012.
Ariel started to notice the ease with which people give advice to their friends, but concluded that much of it is very paradoxical and nonsense. So he set out to illustrate the many ways that people brandish advice.
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Today's Shabbat
welcome comes from Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa,
where members of the Bet David congregation sing one of the traditional
versions of Lecha Dodi, the hymn that is usually sung in the Kabbalat Shabbat service.
Founded in 1971, Congregation Bet David is a Progressive Jewish
congregation. Bet David is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive congregation
that invites individuals and families of all observance levels to
worship and learn together.
The Bet David community is a diverse congregation engaged in social
issues, culture and learning – a congregation rediscovering Jewish
values that give meaning and provide a strong foundation to face the
challenges of contemporary life.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Khayelitsha United Mambazo is an African choir from Cape Town, South Africa. The 11-piece group aim to follow in the footsteps of their
heroes and friends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
In a recent concert they sang a medley of Hebrew songs including Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Mekimi Meafar Dal, and Ki Va Moed.
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The Green and Sea
Point Hebrew Congregation in Cape Town, South Africa, is known as the
Marais Road Shul. Last week before Shabbat Cantor Ivor Jaffe, the shul
choir and live band performed a new version of Lecha Dodi, the central
part of the Kabbalat Shabbat service.Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Today's Shabbat
welcome comes from Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa,
where members of the Bet David congregation sing one of the traditional
versions of Ein Keiloheinu, the hymn that is usually sung in the Shabbat Musaf service.
Founded in 1971, Congregation Bet David is a Progressive Jewish
congregation. Bet David is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive congregation
that invites individuals and families of all observance levels to
worship and learn together.
The Bet David community is a diverse congregation engaged in social
issues, culture and learning – a congregation rediscovering Jewish
values that give meaning and provide a strong foundation to face the
challenges of contemporary life.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Today's Shabbat
welcome comes from Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa,
where members of the Bet David congregation sing one of the traditional
versions of Adon Olam, the hymn that is usually sung at the conclusion of the Shabbat Musaf service.
Founded in 1971, Congregation Bet David is a Progressive Jewish
congregation. Bet David is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive congregation
that invites individuals and families of all observance levels to
worship and learn together.
The Bet David community is a diverse congregation engaged in social
issues, culture and learning – a congregation rediscovering Jewish
values that give meaning and provide a strong foundation to face the
challenges of contemporary life.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Founded in 1971 in Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, Congregation Bet David is a Progressive Jewish
congregation. Bet David is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive congregation
that invites individuals and families of all observance levels to
worship and learn together.
This week we join the Bet David choir in a traditional rendition of Adon Olam, the song that usually ends the Shabbat Shacharit service.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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The
Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation (CTPJC), also known as Temple
Israel, is the umbrella body for the three Progressive Jewish
Congregations in Wynberg, Green Point and West Coast.
It is currently
the second biggest Jewish congregation in Cape Town, South Africa with almost 1,000
families registered as members.
The singers of Temple Israel are in lockdown, but that isn't preventing them from singing. Here is their rendition of Adon Olam.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Khayelitsha United Mambazo is an Isicathamiya choir from Indlovini in
Khayelitsha. (Isicathamiya is a form of Traditional African Male Vocal
Music.) The 11-piece group aim to follow in the footsteps of their
heroes and friends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
The choir spent many
years performing at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, entertaining
visitors from across the world. Their rich and powerful performance is
built on a varied repertoire consisting of famous traditional songs, as
well as a large selection of original songs mostly themed around social
issues. After their performances they work with boys in their
neighborhood, acting as mentors and role models to involve the boys in
constructive activities.
In this video they sing three Hebrew songs: Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Mikimi, and Ki Va Moed.
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Celebrations of Israel's 70th birthday continue around the world. In Johannesburg, South Africa, the Israel embassy and the Jewish community united with the band Hatikva Shesh playing Hachi Israeli for a flash mob. Participants included the Israel embassy in Pretoria, the South African Zionist Federation, together with Jewish schools and the Jewish Community of Johannesburg. Enjoy! A
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In 2016 Johannesburg-born Choni Goldman, aka Choni G,
won the prestigious Jewish Star - an international American Idol-style
competition that showcases the singing talents of Orthodox Jews.
Since
then, he’s relocated to Cape Town to take on the role of chazzan at Cape
Town's oldest and most famous synagogue. He performed at gigs in
Australia, Brazil and the USA, and cemented his reputation as South
Africa’s most sought-after Jewish wedding singer. In this video, Choni G. teams up with band leader Johnny Sklar to sing Yedid Nefesh on a rooftop in Cape Town in South Africa. Enjoy and Shabbat shalom! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Regular fans of Jewish Humor Central know that Monday is set aside for a Joke to Start the Week and Thursday is Throwback Thursday for comedy nostalgia.
We're trying to keep a few days each week available for surprises, the Greatest Jewish Comedians, and whatever we find funny or nachas producing. But we're reserving Fridays as best we can for something musical or funny to ease us into welcoming Shabbat.
Today we're sharing another version of Adon Olam, the concluding hymn of most Shabbat services. Since we started blogging we've posted 22 versions of the song performed around the world. We don't usually find it as a featured concert piece, but you never know what selections will appear on concert programs. The Jewish Male Choir of Johannesburg, South Africa sang a medley of multiple versions of Adon Olam with 24 singers and a five piece musical ensemble backing up Cantor Steven Leas, Professor Russel Lurie, Cantor Chilly Chrysler, and Cantor Ezra Sher. Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Pirke Avot, the Talmud tractate known as Ethics of the Fathers, has been translated into many languages, but it took Eliezer Auerbach, a rabbi and composer from Johannesburg, South Africa to create an arrangement of a song in the Zulu language based on a famous passage in this Talmud volume. In Avot (2:20), it is written: Rabbi Tarfon would say: Hayom Katzer V'hamlacha meruba (The day is short, and the work is much.). Thuli Mazibuko translated the lyrics into Zulu.. Much of the attraction of the song is that Rabbi Eliezer Auerbach has joined with some of the best African singers in the Wits University Choir
who managed to connect to the message and the values taken from Jewish
sources, and transfer these through the song to the masses. The African
language words fit with the rhythm and melody perfectly and a Zulu song was born.
The video below shows Rabbi Auerbach singing the song with a group of his students. If you want to hear it sung by the Wits University Choir and orchestra, click on the play button at the bottom of the Amazon.com page. The Zulu lyrics are: I langa I langa I langa lifisha. Nomsebenzi benzi moningi. Basebenzi baya vilapa iholo labo labo lilingi. I langa lifishi nomsebenzi moningi basebenzi baya vilapa iholo labo lilingi umphati uyaququzela. Enjoy! (A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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(A tip of the kippah to Aliza Weisberger Kwiat for bringing this story to our attention.)
It's not often that we get to post a Jewish flash mob from Johannesburg, South Africa, but so far the Jewish community there is the only one we've seen that takes parts of the Haggadah into the public sphere.
In this case Rabbi Dovid Hazdan of the Great Park Synagogue South Africa
arranged a flash mob at Pick 'n Pay, a major supermarket to draw attention to the display of Kosher for Pesach products that are
available. The flash mob performed a rendition of Vehi She'amdah, a portion of the Pesach Haggaddah, to the surprise and delight of shoppers.It generated Jewish pride and positive happy energy as it added to the community’s awareness and preparation for Pesach. Enjoy!
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This year Sukkot coincided with the
South African public holiday, Heritage Day.
Since South Africans are
encouraged to celebrate their diversity of cultures, beliefs and
traditions, this was a good opportunity for one of South
Africa's Jewish Outreach organizations to organize a concert of local
soul and pop music talent to celebrate both religion and culture.
The educational and outreach organization Soul Workout organized the Soul Simcha concert. Amid the smoke of braai (barbecue) fires, performers sang in Hebrew and English. A children's choir stole the show as South Africans got an exposure to Jewish culture and music that usually appears only at weddings and bar mitzvahs.
It turned out to be a joyful family evening filled with Jewish music and Boerewors rolls – South Africa’s version of a hotdog. The event was recorded and reported on by JN1, the Jewish-interest news channel of the European Jewish Union. Enjoy! (A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Every once in a while we come across a video that illustrates the beauty and pervasiveness of Jewish life and traditions reaching out to corners of the world where they are least expected to be found. We categorize these as "Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places" and have reported on quite a few since starting Jewish Humor Central.
Today we're sharing a video of a Jewish wedding that took place last December on the beach of a remote island in Thailand that has no roads. The Australian groom met his South African bride while rock climbing in Asia.
Why Thailand? Well, it's roughly half-way between South Africa and Australia. Eighty of their
friends and family traveled across the world to attend the wedding. Talk about destination weddings!
The couple were married in a traditional Orthodox ceremony by a South African rabbi who happened to be the grandson of the rabbi who had married the bride's grandparents on the same day two
generations earlier in South Africa. You'll notice the signing of the ketuba at the chatan's tish, the badeken ceremony, the bride circling the groom during the ceremony, and the use of an RCA ArtScroll Life Cycle Madrikh (guide to performing life cycle ceremonies) by the rabbi.
The videographers deserve a lot of credit for shooting for 17 hours straight, walking and running over 12 miles between locations, each carrying 22 pounds of video gear all day in sweltering heat.
It's not exactly Jewish humor, but it clearly fits into our category of Yiddishe nachas. If you're looking for humor in this video, we can call your attention to:
- Monkeys cavorting on a fence
- Locals smoking home made cigarettes
- Wedding procession marching to Hebrew version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
- Fire dancers at nighttime reception - Launching fire lanterns into the night sky
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Just Published: The Kustanowitz Kronikle - 35 Years of Purim Parody
Every Purim for the past 35 years we have published a Purim parody edition of The Kustanowitz Kronikle, covering virtually every aspect of Jewish life, and including parodies of hundreds of popular movies. This year we decided to retire the series and capture all the fun in a book that's just been published and is available at Amazon.com. It has every Purim issue of The Kustanowitz Kronikle from 1988 through 2022 in a full-color, full-size paperback book with hilarious headline stories and parody movie picks. Here are a few examples: TRUMP, NETANYAHU SWAP ROLES, COUNTRIES; NEW TALMUD VOLUME "VOTIN" FOUND IN IRAQ; JOINS "FRESSIN", "NAPPIN", TANTZEN","PATCHEN"; "JUDAICARE" PROGRAM PLANNED TO ENSURE THAT ALL JEWS HAVE SYNAGOGUE MEMBERSHIP; RABBIS CREATE TALMUD AMERICANI; NEW LAWS EXTEND HALACHA TO THANKSGIVING AND JULY 4; JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE UNITE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING; FOCUS ON REDUCING HOT AIR; RABBIS TO REQUIRE SHECHITA FOR MANY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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This book presents 150 anecdotes and associated video clips that reveal the myriad ways that Jewish culture, religion, humor, music, song, and dance have found expression in parts of the world that, at first glance, might not seem supportive of Jewish Life. It includes 50 videos of Hava Nagila being performed from Texas to Thailand, from India to Iran, and from Buenos Aires to British Columbia. Also highlighted are 34 international versions of Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Adon Olam, Abanibi, and Tumbalalaika. Whether you’re reading the print version and typing in the video URLs or reading the e-book version and clicking on the links, you’ll have access to 150 video clips totaling more than 10 hours of video. Enjoy!
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This book explores the multifaceted nature of humor in Israel, some of which is intentional and some of which is unintentional. Either way, the quirks of Israeli life contribute to making that life interesting and fulfilling. In the pages of this volume, we take a look at humorous slices of Israeli life, Israeli comedy, satire and parody, funny TV commercials, unusual stories about food, surprising rabbinic bans on daily activities, simchas as they can only be celebrated in Israel, and endearing aspects of Israeli culture. There are more than 120 anecdotes and links to video clips totaling more than six hours of video. We hope that these anecdotes and video clips give you a new and different insight into life in Israel, and encourage you to join in the fun by planning a visit to the land flowing with milk and honey.
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Thoughts on the Haggadah by Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum
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We just recently were able to find the latest version of my fathers, Rabbi
Eli Teitelbaum Z”L, thoughts on the Haggadah and conve...
Hamantaschen: The Symbolism behind Purim Cookies
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Purim is a celebration of masquerade, Mishloach Manot, Hamantaschen and
book of Esther reading. Every Jewish holiday focuses on a special dish and
the tria...
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Boarding School Massachusetts
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Every fall the Massachusetts Health Connector provides information
concerning the public higher education institutions and designed to prevent
offenders ...
A chat with some protesters…
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Originally posted on don of all trades:
Hi protesters, it’s me, Don. Do you remember me? No? I’m a police officer.
We’ve met before. Excuse me? Did you say...
Jerusalem Walking Tours for Sukkot
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It is about time that I brought back my “Jerusalem: Meet Jerusalem” walking
tour series. And while I am nearing completion on a few new ones that I
hope to...
Trayf of the Week: Bacon Jam
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Just when you thought it was safe to eat your bagels in mixed company,
comes this devilish concoction. Next time a Goyishe friend offers you a
shmear, mak...
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