Showing posts with label yehuda menashe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yehuda menashe. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2010

Jewish Music: A New Kid on the Block


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Jerusalem - Israel’s new sensation in Chassidic music is not from Jerusalem or Bnei Brak. Until a few years ago he was an African-American Christian from Ohio.

In an interview to Israel's CH. 2 “The Jews are the children of HaKadosh Boruch Hu,” says rapper Yehuda Menashe, who studied in a New York yeshiva, converted and adopted a Hebrew name. He made aliya almost a year ago, and his speech is now a medley of English, Yiddish and Hebrew. (To read more, please check out Vos Is Neias/What is new in Yiddish)