Re: Making Judaism Cool

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

Oh Ari:
Bad Day at Black Rock for me.  I guess I leapt without looking! It's about 
the article...sorry I wasn't exactly explicit.
My buttons clearly got pushed.
As for Rosie...I'm sure she can take care of herself.
Be Well!!
Trudi


>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Making Judaism Cool
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:10:01 -0400
>
>Hi Trudi,
>
>Are those comments on the article, or comments based on some of the
>things I mentioned the article covering? I ask, because I don't have
>any problem with Roseanne leading kabbalah studies, but the author of
>the article did have some reasons for bringing it up as an issue to
>illustrate some of the things he was writing about.
>
>ari
>
>At 12:32 PM 6/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >  Hey why shouldn't Roseanne be leading kabbalah studies...does the fact
> >that she is a performer mean that she doesn't care about being Jewish?
> >No...as a matter of fact she has given long-standing support to the 
>Jewish
> >Community, particularly through Jewish Charities, such as the charitable
> >wing of the B'nai Brith.  So?
> >   Are we be back to yet another discussion of who is REALLY a Jew and 
>who
> >has the right to be?  I'll have to check with my Irish Jewish great
> >Grandfather on that one!
> >   As for Judaism and Jewish culture being "cool" we could do worse.  I 
>find
> >that people who are actually interested in Jews stick around long past 
>the
> >fads.  These coolniks actually come to Jewish Music concerts...ya know?
> >      Zei Gezunt
> >      Trudi the G, LR (Lepracohen in Residence)
> >
> >>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
> >>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >>Subject: Making Judaism Cool
> >>Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:07:59 -0400
> >>
> >>There is an interesting take on new Jewish music from the March edition
> >>of Tikkun magazine that I just discovered:
> >>
> >>http://www.tikkun.org/0003/0003schorsh.html
> >>
> >>I think there's some meat there worth discussing, if anyone else is
> >>interested. Certainly the "cool" issue as regards new Jewish music, as 
>used
> >>by the author, rings a bell. The author also peripherally touches on an
> >>issue raised obliquely by Ruth Wisse in her review of Henry's
> >>book--klezmer, or
> >>cool new Jewish music, on their own, do not carry a Jewish life.
> >>
> >>That doesn't matter, if one is appreciating the music because it is
> >>exciting, wonderful, Jewish soul music (to the extent that the best
> >>new Jewish music is those things), and it has nothing to do with how
> >>one live's one's life or one's identity as a person.
> >>
> >>It is absolutely irrelevant for those people already immersed in
> >>Jewish life, for whom a variety of new Jewish music (not necessarily
> >>klezmer or "cool") is a living part of that life.
> >>
> >>But for many of us, this new Jewish music is something more than the
> >>soundtrack to struggles with defining who we are as Jews. As people
> >>living Jewishly outside the mainstream of Jewish life, or trying to
> >>influence the Jewish mainstream to our own political or cultural
> >>visions, the music carries additional weight and relevance.
> >>
> >>And, yet, I suspect that for many of the people about whom the author
> >>of this article is writing, this "cool" is enough, or is substituting
> >>for something deeper. Roseanne leading kabala study, indeed!
> >>
> >>Anyway, as I said, if the article strikes any of these chords, let's
> >>do discuss it.
> >>
> >>http://www.tikkun.org/0003/0003schorsh.html
> >>
> >>ari
> >>
> >>
> >>Ari Davidow
> >>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> >>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
> >>
> >>
> >
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