Jenny Slate, known as the Jewish firecracker (ok, maybe we made that up), is our new favorite thing and her doorbell video is why. In case you aren’t familiar with Slate just yet, she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for its 35th season. She is half of the comedy duo, Gabe & Jenny and has appeared on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sketch 7th Floor West where she played an NBC page, later promoted to Fallon’s assistant and in a recurring role on Bored to Death (allegedly, our other favorite thing, which we have yet to watch).
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.
