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 had it made. We would wake up every morning and live life to the fullest frequently checking the Shemspeed daily. Spreading Jewish culture and telling people about the site led us to have quit the following and it turned out that the celebrity life that we wanted to escape just kept following us.
When I heard about the Jewlicious festival, I was excited but also a little nervous at the same time. I just didn’t know if it was a good idea having all the Shemspeed artists in the same place at the same time it seemed very risky kind of how the president and vice president never travel together. I kept my thoughts positive and looked forward to this amazing show…then that the thursday before the festival the unthinkable happened, one of the scariest days of my life. I went to check the site and an error page popped up. At first I thought it was normal I probally spelt Shemspeed with two s’s. When I made the correction I saw the same error page. I was shocked, my vision was blurred. Millions of thoughts crossed my mind, Did it crash? Did Erez have all of Shemspeed’s money invested with Bernie Madoff, or was someone waiting for the whole Shemspeed team to be on the other side of the country to carry out this attack. Word quickly spread around town right around the time of the communal 2:30 checking of the site. The last time I saw this kind of uproar in the town was when Wall Mart moved in. I had to calm everyone down. I called Diwon on the emergency Shemspeed red phone to prep me on what was going on before my press conference. People wanted answers and I was who they where going to turn to.
After we got all the answered and realized it was all the for the best. It was just an desent for the sake of an assent. I’m glad to see Shemspeed back and even better then ever.

- Joseph Mandelbaum