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1. Oh yeh, and check this out:

   Punk Rocker’s Holy Debut

   Dan Goldberg | Wed. Sep 12, 2007

   His face is peppered with multiple piercings, his neck is normally padlocked with a thick metal chain, and his dreadlocks are dyed bright orange and blood red. Bram Presser cuts an archetypal punk rock figure — but he does not blend into your average Sabbath-morning crowd.

   Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped an Orthodox synagogue in Australia from recently appointing the 31-year-old punk prankster as its choirmaster. The frontman of the Jewish punk rock band Yidcore, which he founded in 2001 with three mates from a Jewish school, Presser has managed to straddle the seemingly incongruous worlds of traditional Judaism and punk rock.

   The band toured Israel and the United States last year, and now Presser is gearing up for his next big gig: High Holy Day services. Presser is no stranger to the spotlight in the Jewish world, having served as president of the community center adjacent to his suburban synagogue in Melbourne.

   On Yidcore’s Web site, the band members are described as “wacky Aussie punk rockers who perform punked up versions of Jewish classics,” but Presser is less charitable with his description of them. “Jews generally disown us,” he said, deadpan. “But punks are into us.”

   Now, however, the largely conservative, middle-class congregants of the North Eastern Jewish Centre will be forced to face a Jewish choirmaster whose latest album — titled “They Tried To Kill Us. They Failed. Let’s Eat” — pokes Mel Brooks-style fun at every antisemite who has tried to wage genocide against Jews in the past 2,000 years.

   “I look funny, but a lot of [the congregants] have known me since I was a little kid,” Presser said. “I think it’s hilarious. To me it’s challenging, interesting and colorful, and inviting for congregants.”

   While Yidcore has done curious cover versions of several Jewish and Israeli songs, including “Hava Nagila,” “Mah Nishtana,” “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Dayenu,” Presser doubts that any of those interpretations will make its way into the festival services. “Choirs are about getting the congregation to sing along, so I can’t stray too far,” he said.

   But he concedes that his promotion — he has been a choir member at the synagogue for years — is as far as he can go: “I’m sure if I tried to be the hazan or rabbi, there would be issues.”

   Dan Goldberg is the head of development at North One TV in Sydney, Australia.

   http://www.forward.com/articles/11583/

   skazm said this on September 17th, 2007 at 4:42 am

2. Great video!!!

   (had to find another PC to comment this:)

   Yevgeny said this on October 1st, 2007 at 5:37 am

3. FIREFOX

   skazm said this on October 1st, 2007 at 5:49 am

4. 😀 your stuff is awesome yourself
   i think you two would make a great double bill

   skazm said this on October 1st, 2007 at 5:49 am

5. BRAM GAVE ME THE LYRICS WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Four thousand years and its come to this
   Four hummus-spewing idiots
   Dodging airborne bottles, spit and flying fists… Which mostly missed
   So don’t hijack us for your politics
   We’re not heroes or heretics
   We’re just here to get some kicks
   So drop the hate and raise your drinks

   We’re jokers in the war on prejudice
   Crusades, and blood libel myths
   Inquisitions, Nazis, Stalinists… Neo-nazi lunatics
   We’re holding out the truth to the revisionists
   And laughing in the faces of conspiracists
   Cos if we ran the world would we have time for this
   Oh lech lehizdayen you pricks

   This is not a call to arms this is a celebration
   We should be dead by now so we’ve exceeded expectations
   We’ve seen so many rise and fall taken so many beatings
   While you were empire building we were sitting back and eating

   We struggle just so we can eat
   But we will never know defeat
   Tradition in our veins runs strong
   Our grandmothers know all our songs
   We got no children got no wives
   Our parents’ guilt we have survived
   And so for us please do not cry
   We’re having the time of our lives

   skazm said this on October 1st, 2007 at 6:38 pm