Gideon Raff is the creative mind behind the Israeli drama (Prisoners of War) that the award winning ‘Homeland’ series is based off of. Raff spends his time between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv, writing, directing and filming his next two, soon to be hit, tv shows. The first is Dig which will air on USA Network this fall and the second, which we are really excited about is a sort of reverse Homeland and is dubbed, Tyrant. Tyrant stars Israel’s own Moran Atias, model turned actress and producer, known for The Next Three Days (2010), Crash (2008) and Mother of Tears (2007). Tyrant premieres this month on FX. If you want to binge watch this like Homeland, you may have to wait a bit.
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.