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Secret Yemen Rescue Imperiled by Communal Turf Battles
Leaks of Planned Operation Put Delicate Negotiations at Risk
“A secret and delicate operation to evacuate a substantial portion of Yemen’s tiny and beleaguered Jewish population has been thrust into public view and put at risk by infighting among rival Jewish organizations. In the wake of disclosures in the [...]

David Abitbol of Jewlicious says; “Applications for the ROI Summit 2009 are open until Monday March 23rd. What is the ROI Community? The Web site says “ROI is a global community of young Jewish innovators that was created by Lynn Schusterman in the summer of 2006 as a partnership between the Center for Leadership Initiatives [...]

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We just talked about having frum girls dance (or not dance) in the “Make It” video….and then this happens…….”After Oif Simchas choreography and music, Chassidic trance and raggae music, what new titillating netherworlds remain to be conquered?
Now Israel Hayom reports that women are being roped into the new wave of avant-garde chareidi entertainment. The latest [...]

Shemspeed got down in Crown Heights to shoot “Make It”, the next music video for DeScribe & Y-Love, with a slew of Dancers and Graff Writers and, well, the rest are surprises! The video is going to be amazing. It was Directed by Lenny Bass (director of Timbaland, De La, Fantasia….) the same amazing [...]

Heeb Magazine, always the edgy and not-your-mamma’s-Judaism kind of publication, has created a competition that is all at once offensive, intriguing, and thought provoking: a Fake Holocaust Memoir Competition Inspired by “fauxlocaust” survivor (Heeb’s well-constructed term) Binjamin Wilkomirski and his tear jerking but very false Holocaust memoir, “Memories of a Wartime Childhood [...]

Shemspeed is working on a video for our newest artist, Eprhyme. The track is called “SHOMER SALAAM”. It’s a song that centers on connections between Jews and Muslims, but also in general between people of all backgrounds. This is not a protest song or a finger pointing song, its much more about the [...]

This just in from Dov Rosenblatt:
“here’s a new song i wrote after repeatedly watching that disturbing clip you all sent me last week of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish students at York University in Toronto rallying and blocking Jewish students from entering their own Hillel offices. Unfortunately, this is only one of many scary and upsetting videos of [...]

The Shabbos before my wife and I left for our move to Seattle my sister beitressa mandelbaum came with a friend of hers name abshalom jac lahav an Israeli artist. Over some giffilte fish we spoke about his new exhibit which is called 48 jews that is now touring [...]

our twitter now says: Shemspeed show all sold out thanks for thems who came and big ups to Matisyahu for jumping on with us! shavua tov.

(photos by Daniel Sieradski of www.orthodoxanarchist.com)
more photos at flickr.com/shemspeed
p.s. a video of Aharit Hayamim and Matisyahu jammin at last night’s Shemspeed Massive will be posted shortly, check back.
p.p.s. big up [...]

“The Change Ep” Update:
* 1. Pick up the first two singles; “CHANGE” & “MAKE IT” off “THE CHANGE EP” on iTunes now!
* 2. Watch the “Change” music video now and be on the look out for the “Make It” video coming soon!
* 3. The Full “Change EP” which will include all 4 singles plus a [...]

The slick a$$ Shemspeed website was programmed by Jesse “the brilliant” Selengut, he does web on the side, what he is best at is resurrecting the mix of wholesome tin pans and roots jazz music. For a long time we have been fans of Man Man from philly. We never reviewed their record, [...]

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UPCOMING SHEMSPEED EVENTS:
March 14th (Buy TICKETS)
March 17-22nd @ SXSW (INFO)
March 23rd (BUY TICKETS)

After my nomination for the Noble Peace Prize the press was just unbearable. My wife who I met that night at the Sepharidic Music Festival and I decided that it was time to settle down and start to spread the word about Shemspeed. We moved to a small town in the state of Washington, we [...]

We met Inbal Freund-Novick, the director of Mavoi Satum, on ROI120 two years ago and have been talking about writing a song and shooting a video for her organization. Mavoi Satum does very important work for women being denied divorce. It is a complicated issue in Israel and the the relig [...]

ch-ch-check it out! This saturday night is the Shemspeed Massive at 92Y Tribeca!
Shemspeed’s 40 Days and 40 NightsRoots + Rock + Reggae + Rap
with live performances by
Israel’s Aharit Haymaim /HAI
Y-Love + DeScribe
Eprhyme
London’s Anomoly MC
Diwon
Dov Rosenblatt
Benyamin Brody
and special guest, Darshan!
The 40 Days and 40 Nights tour is tearing across the country in a wild celebration of [...]

Ok, this is ridiculous! The Israeli modern dance troupe Batsheva Dance Company has been met with protests during its North American tour. Currently performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a BAM spokewoman said a “small group” has applied to the police for permits to demonstrate outside tonight’s performance.
While the dance company’s work is not [...]

I spent most of the late 90’s saying, “Man, that reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld” and most of 05-09 saying, “dude, this could so be an episode of Curb…I could just picture Larry David obsessing over this and then having it all come back to bite him in the arse at the end”. [...]

What are you all dressing up as for Purim? Comment below and let us know. We are thinking Mr. West and his crew looked fine when they landed at the Cannes Festival. We want to be them. If anyone wants to join us re-create this photo and run around town lookin just [...]

Here is a freestyle we started out in Cali with some of the top Semitic scriptural linguists. Of course this is them just rhymin off the top of their head, which generally unless it’s a Rabbi isn’t all Scripture, but it for the most part is really fun to check out and see who [...]

@ylove brought to our attention, because of all his tweetdeckin, that there was a huge number of tweets that read something like, “we love j.e.w.”! and “j.e.w. are awesome”. He thought it was about him. ok, I’m joking, but he was really curious why everyone was declaring their love for Jews and then [...]

So we saw this a little while ago on SNL, but had no idea that it was actually a real/fake group. They have a name and everything, their name is “The Lonely Island”. The group is fronted by the ultra-Semitic, Andy Samberg the ultra awkward, Jorma Taccone and what I has just been [...]

Shemspeed will once again be present and accounted for at this years SXSW
If you are going to be out there, here is the info on where to catch them. Updated info on all night will be posted the week of.
March 17th
City On Fire, Beauty Bar, Fanatic Promotion, and Toyota Matrix present:
ART [...]