Call Queen Mary Hotel Reservations: (877) 342-0742

Invite your friends, family, and strangers in line at the grocery store to this transformative experience!

Any questions? Email conference2012@limmudla.org.

LimmudLA is a community of volunteers dedicated to connecting Jews of all backgrounds in Southern California through volunteerism and cross-communal learning. LimmudLA’s volunteers collaborate year-round, creating learning spaces where Jews can take one step further on their Jewish journeys.

As with everything in Sundance, we have a guest list so that we can reserve spots for people that really want to be there. If you or a friend would like to join us at this exclusive Shabbat happening, make sure to RSVP today.

RSVP Needed to sasha.jewlicious@gmail.com

See you in Park City!

Rabbi Yonah

SPONSORED BY CHAI CENTER
IN COLLABORATION WITH JEWLICIOUS

This will undoubtedly be the most memorable Festival yet! Did we mention that it’s on a boat? A really BIG boat? Bigger than the Titanic even! This new venue allows for all kinds of exciting programming possibilities and the entire ship is amazing to explore. We have negotiated great rates on cabins for 2/3/4 people to stay on board in the Queen Mary Hotel starting at a very affordable $99. These actual cabins were used for transatlantic voyages in the 1920s and 1930s and are updated with flat-screen TV’s and all the usual luxury amenities. Pre-sale Festival tickets are just $36 as long as supplies last. So grab a ticket and come aboard!

We will be rolling out lists of presenters, sponsors, and most importantly musical artists starting in January. But don’t let that get in the way of you ordering a PRESALE!

Tickets below!

As many of you know, I have been playing the Jewlicious Festival for a few years, and even when I wasn’t, I decided still to go and play for like a freestyle. I remember I did not know Rabbi Yonah then but I recall showing up in my Nisaan Pathfinder, (which is now humbly parked in a Korea Town parking garage ) unloaded my merchandise and slept under a table in the concert hall where I recently played.

And so with actions like this, I have been labeled as a hustler. Sure its a good thing if you are Larry Flynt, or a hardcore hip hop aficionado, but I’d rather be known (or at least paid more) as a gentleman, a scholar, a curator, and man who transcends boundaries rather than crosses.

A man who runs around and raps sounds like he is on some sort of rap drug. Me on the other hand, I have a plan behind it as a purpose within the Jewish context of Kosha Dillz. Yes there is a deep spiritual meaning behind the ambiguous name and attitude. I bet you are crawling out your seat to see examples.

We need to push ourselves in being independent, as Jews have been since the eternity of time. Being an independent salesman is hard in a field that no one has embarked on . The Jewish rapper who sleeps on floors and needs to sell cds for a living. I want Jews to feel my story and sometimes you don’t want to support my mission. Its ok. I shall be patient I still love you.

Here comes some Jewish rapper guy that’s weird rapping in Hebrew and keeps bothering me. Boy do I hate this guy> i just want to be in my shell because I have other weird Jewish issues I can’t talk to anyone about. Let me put this man Kosha Dillz down and call people to tell them he is annoying, aka he contacted me for a show three times, he HUSTLES aka lets treat him as the Hebrew Uncle Stalker that Lonely Elephant is Stupid!

Kosha you are close. Its o.k. to push and hustle like a mad man. You are a hustler. A great one. You are key to survival 10 people will listen but 5 will say stuff about you that is bad but 10 really support. How Under Scrutiny the Love eludes Rami. People love you but sometimes i forget to acknowledge i only need the approval from G-d himself.

In benefit of winning over a confused Jewish person, or someone who is detached form their own heritage and own birthright, I do things for free because I love being Jewish so much. As a hustler, you never want to do something for free. But then I think of Rabbi’s and programs who literally have to give Jews a bunch of money to do something Jewish, while other faiths like Christianity make you pay $3000 for a trip to Jerusalem, we pay our kids to go and feed them 3 times a day.

Heal up Slowly than Lower every dollar. It hurts that sometimes they don’t believe but we cannot force anyone to do anything they want. Lets just give away a bunch of free stuff so we can do something great in God’s eyes and bring Jews together. Even if it they are not a Jew, let them see what Kosha Dillz is really about and give them a different story they are not used to.

I don’t have a beard. I have a checkered past. I work for myself. I just started dating Jewish girls. Why is my story not as inspiring as others? it is my friends. My journey is too, all you have to do is a have a little trust and I am willing to wait.

In the rap world, you would never think to see the day. I recently was called up to Play Hip Hop Hanukkah with Hot 97 morning show host Peter Rosenberg at the legendary SOBS on De 15th. Do I feel that this is a great chance to play a Jewish event? It’s not a Jewish event. Most people at a hip hop Hanukkah will not be Jewish. THh performers are signed to labels like Stones Throw and Shady Records w/ Eminem. Action Bronson, who is half Jewish/Albanian, has a song called Muslim Wedding and raps about Jewish Mothers. Peter Rosenberg, the face of NYC music, is changing the game by being the Jew on the morning show.

I guess the point of this article is like, why Judge?

Why aren’t there more Jews at my events to really start a movement of supporting the people for where they are at in the journey? Being distant from us or anyone for that matter is the most driving force to keep those relationships far from a bond that could be shared. Just because i don’t have tzit tzit on or a long beard or yarmulke, doesn’t mean my mission is any different. Please remember that when my family was killed as was yours in the holocaust, they didn’t pick and choose neither. Everyone was equal.

respectfully requesting more yarmulke

The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. The Jewish people make a global reset and roll-back our Torah scrolls. Fresh and new, our world is set in motion with organic divine harmony, only to be disrupted by human folly.

This annual cosmic rewind and the rereading of Genesis gives each of us a chance to deepen our thinking about the stories we heard as children about the dangers of snakes and fruit trees, about curiosity and sibling rivalry. The sages enjoined us to reread the Torah and look at it with fresh eyes in every generation, freeing us to be creative while demanding our direct engagement with the text.

This year, what comes to my mind after a successful and inspiring Jewlicious Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Days of Awesome experience is how much those involved with the Jewish community, and those on the periphery, want to connect to something enduring in the face of an uncertain economic future. I see young Jews more willing to revisit ageless questions about the meaning of life, and less satisfied with traditional ways of experiencing our highest holy days.

With this in mind, I opened the Torah to reflect upon the connection of Genesis, a new year, the Arab spring, European summer and the growing season of discontent branded an American autumn. What I found in this fresh reading of Genesis is the far-reaching effects of personal and collective responsibility.

When confronted with the result of our actions in Eden, and even afterward, humanity quickly began pointing fingers. No one wanted to accept responsibility for breaking the matrix that kept the world in a state of harmony. Not Adam. Not Eve. Not Cain. No one would own up to their lust for personal gain – even at the expense of others.

Instead, we are introduced to how humanity upset God’s perfect world with dishonesty, withholding information, jealousy and accusations.

Jewish tradition teaches that God created the world to infuse it with goodness. However, this stands in contrast to the world we see. Even with the rose-colored glasses of privilege and faith in humankind, we have to admit that the world is full of misery and suffering. Finding God in this mess becomes difficult, if not impossible, for many of us.

The Jewish mission of repairing the world, tikkun olam, uncovers the goodness God uses to sustain the world. Healing wrongs, promoting justice, equality and sustainability becomes a process of repairing creation. Tikkun olam taps into a deep-seated yearning for a revealed world of goodness, a return to Eden, and why so many of my tribe are drawn to movements for social change.

These latest movements for vast social change on the left and right can learn an important lesson from this week’s portion. They can learn that a critical mistake for which humanity was expelled from Eden in the first place, and one of the ills that affects our collective future, is a failure to accept personal responsibility for our actions.

What I see in the latest activist movement, Occupy Wall Street, is in some way a manifestation of a primal yearning for a world in balance that we see at the start of Genesis. The economic disparity and disillusionment that seems to be at the heart of this social upheaval is led by young people who yearn for myriad causes, some contradictory and some difficult to ascertain. Yet at the core is a yearning for an “Eden” world, a world that is healed and at peace. It’s a beautiful mission that hearkens to our yearning for redemption. Therefore, I hesitate to dismiss the eruption of protests across the United States and now in Europe as a pointless exercise in anarchy, hypocrisy, or a new call to eat the rich.

Occupy Wall Street understands that this millennial generation is not responsible for the mess we are in. This generation knows they are not responsible for setting up the systems that are broken. Yet they feel compelled to do something about it.

Yet I also hear the message from some Occupy folks as recognizing that they, like most of us, are marked by the faults of this generation. Facing the reality that they too have been complicit in the errors of this generation – such as vanity, apathy, materialism and a lack of acceptance of responsibility.

Genesis falls on the heels of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. These Days of Awe are a process of owning up to our communal shortcomings and asking God’s assistance in helping fix them. It requires us to accept responsibility for our own mistakes, and the mistakes of our entire community and the world. Only then can we begin to start over.

Jewlicious is running our own version of the High Holidays in Los Angeles. It’s a totally out-of-the boxexperience called Days of Awesome 2011, a Jewlicious High Holiday Experience. Days of Awesome starts Thursday September 29th and October 7th and 8th. The Rosh Hashanah program features a one hour non-traditional interactive un-service, shofar, classes, yoga, stories, meditation, song, amazing honey cake, kabbalistic lunch, and a general chill atmosphere. Program requires advanced reservations and are still free while space permits. I will be leading services with other teachers including: Marcus Freed, Tahlia Miller, Harry Nelson, Cheston Mizel, Rabbi Shlomo Seidenfeld and more TBA.

Other cool options in LA – some of which have a price tag – include:

The “I Wish I Got More Out of Services” Services
An explanatory, fully halachic High Holiday minyan. Expect a spirited & uplifting davening, with Michael Borkow & Rabbi Arye Sufrin explaining what we’re doing and why, every step of the way. For information, please contact Michael at HighHolidays2011@yahoo.com.

Ikar (Conservative-Egal)
Join IKARfor a soul stirring High Holy Day experience and discover a renewed sense of possibility and purpose. Go tohttp://www2.ikar-la.org/HHD5772for more info and to get your IKARds (entrance cards) now.

Happy Minyan (Carlebach Orthodox)
Join the Happy Minyan Chevre for Carlebach, halachic, singing, dancing and prayers. This traditional service last for several hours and is led by Yehuda Solomon of Moshav, and David Sacks. http://happyminyan.org

Chai Center Free High Holidays at the Writers Guild Theater
FREE! No Reservation Required!
(non-denominational / Chasidik Reform)
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
8:30 – 10:30 PM – Largest Jewish New Years Eve Party
More details here: www.chaicenter.orgor

Nashuva with Rabbi Naomi Levy
Services Santa Monica all free and by donation.
1st day RH taschlich huge drumming circle at the beach
2nd day RH is in temescal canyon park, really amazing meadow outdoor service.
link to services: http://tinyurl.com/43lhhgt
link to tachlich: http://www.nashuva.com/taschlich_cc.html

However, Camp Jewlcious is not your typical summer camp in LA. For starters, the average age of the campers is 25. There are no counsellors, visitor’s day, curfews, or color-wars and camp lasts only four days. Instead of sing-a-longs, there are rock concerts. Cabin raids have been replaced by cabin parties. In fact, many of the things which might have gotten you kicked out of camp as a kid are now permitted.

The evolution of Camp Jewlicious starts with my experiences at the largest summer music festivals across Europe and the States. These festivals collectively attract millions of young adults annually. I dreamt that perhaps one day we could create a summer music festival for Jewish young adults. We would invite Jewish performers, find a rural setting with space for camping out, simultaneous performances, and space for communal meals.

Instead of Shabbat being something that we did between sets alongside the blaring music, Shabbat would be a day of alternative programming like during summer camp. We would provide yoga, hikes, meditation, discussion groups, Sabbath services of different flavors and many other programs. Havdallah would be celebrated around a massive bonfire with singing and dancing, and then just like that the music would start again. The festival would be a fusion of summer camp and a music festival. In fact there were already two other summer music festivals reminiscent of camp, “Summer Camp” near Chicago” and “Camp Bisco” in upstate New York.

This dream of starting a summer music and camping festival did not surprise my wife Rachel.

Our experience showed that festival weekends are trans-formative experiences which transcend differences and strengthen the identity of the participants. We started organizing the Jewlicious Festival for specifically this reason in 2005 when Rachel was director of Long Beach Hillel. Jewlicious Festival today attracts a thousand young adults from twenty states. Co-created with an organizing committee of young adults, the festival celebrates all things Jewish with concerts, workshops, films, over fifty presenters and has been described by one participant as “a weekend unlike any other in Jewish history.”

Academic investigations of music festivals explain why the Festival has been so successful in its mission. According to one recent studies published by Jan Packer and Julie Ballantyne last year, the festival a young person chooses says something about their identity. It provides “a new social context removed from the expectations and routines of everyday life..and allows participants to reflect and re-evaluate their own self-understand and self-acceptance.”

Young people don’t go to festivals for the music, “they go,” said Prof. George McKay author of Glastonbury, “because of the mass experience, the event itself. It fulfills a basic human need that many of us want to surround ourselves with like-minded people at festivals – it’s life affirming.”

“For some, membership of a tribe gives them self esteem,” says Prof. Adrian North, “if you are with people you think are cool it reaffirms your own lifestyle choices – you’re basically patting yourself on the back.”

With communal disaffection for young Jews at an all time low — young Jews need a pat on the back more than ever. According to studies, most of these young Jews are not interested in communal life, not sure about Israel, not likely to raise a Jewish family. But they are interested in life-affirming experiences, festivals, music, culture, and membership in a tribe – precisely the elements that make summer music festivals so attractive. When young Jews come together at a Jewish festival it reaffirms and strengthens their own Jewish identity – and we have a lot of fun.

Thanks to support from generous sponsors, our summer camp music festival is not just a dream. Camp Jewlicious, a mashup of a Coachella, summer camp and Dirty Dancing, is a potent reaffirmation of Jewish identity which is fun, meaningful, and bound to impact the Jewish future in creative and positive ways.

Yonah Bookstein, a leading voice of the next generation of American Jewry, is an internationally recognized expert in Jewish innovation, founder of the Jewlicious Festival, and executive rabbi at JConnectLA. Rabbi Yonah is a frequent contributor to JewishJournal.com, Jewlicious.com and HuffingtonPost.com. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiYonah

What is it about love?

Most songs that have ever been written are either about having it, losing it, or wanting it.

Tu B’Av is a day of Jewish romance and celebrating the love in our lives. LoveFest is produced in honor of an ancient day of joy and matchmaking on the Jewish calender, Tu B’Av, when eligible maidens and bachelors would meet out in the fields on a full moon night.

Join us for an amorous evening of live music, romantic atmosphere, $8 mixed-drinks, and much more.

W HOTEL IN WESTWOOD
Thursday, August 11, Doors 8pm
18+ / Bring ID / $10 pre-pay /$15 Door
VIP Booth $50 / Sponsor $100
LoveFest is sponsored in memory of Linda Einbinder.

From Aug. 16-18th at Brandeis Bardin’s amazing retreat center, participants will learn how to turbo charge their cause. There are a few more spots if you are interested in participating. Thanks to generous support our sponsors, participation costs only $99 including room and board.

Grassroots Summit trainers include:
-organizer for Union of Farm Workers
-former international youth movement leader
-experienced campus and community organizers
-corporate leadership trainer
-start-up consultant
-social media expert
-communications and branding expert
-and others

WHERE: Brandeis Bardin Campus, Simi Valley, CA
1101 Pepper Tree Lane
Simi Valley, CA 93063
(805) 582-4450

WHO: Jewish young adults 18+

COST: $99 and up. (Scholarships available on first come, first serve, basis)

APPLY FOR SUMMIT:
http://jewliciousfestival.​com/applications/grassroot​s-summit-application/

Made Possible by generous sponsorship from:
The Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles, Valley Alliance Of The Jewish Federation Of Great Los Angeles, Stanley and Joyce Black, Goldrich Family Foundation, Israel Leadership Council, Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation

Partners include (list in formation) MASA Israel, Birthright NEXT LA, Jews For Judaism, San Diego Jewish Federation, Jewish Free Loan Association, Nefesh B’ Nefesh, American Jewish University, Jimena and more TBA

The documentary trailer is a great look at what a musician does to make it today. As Christopher Stipp writes in Slashfilms:

this is a trailer that gets to the heart of what any struggling musician, who’s worth the effort, is doing in order to have their thumbtack placed on the map of great musical legends. I walked away from this inspired that no matter what happens, as long you keep fighting and struggling and making noise in order to be heard there’s bound to be someone listening.

We are adding some of the best music and musical settings you will find anywhere, plus bonfires, swimming, alpine tower, s’mores, horseback riding, Israeli folk-dancing, mountain biking, tie-dyeing, drum circles, volley ball, nature hikes, sustainable gardening, challah baking, pickle making, gaga, Shabbat, gourmet food, yoga, pilates, inspiring conversations and great people all in a ridiculously beautiful outdoor setting?

Well, grab your sleeping bags, bathing suit, and dancing shoes for our second annual, completely off-the-charts, music and camping festival!!!

CHECK OUT http://www.campjewlicious.com FOR DETAILS, TICKETS, INFO

Made Possible by Major Sponsorship From
The Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles
Valley Alliance Of The Jewish Federation Of Great Los Angeles
Stanley And Joyce Black
Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation
Israel Leadership Council

Sponsor and partner list in formation- MASA Israel, Birthright NEXT LA, Jews For Judaism, Beach Hillel, SoCal JSS, San Diego Jewish Federation, Jewish Free Loan Association, Nefesh B’ Nefesh, American Jewish University, Jimena

TICKETS FOR CAMP & APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMIT:
www.CampJewlicious.com

Music and Camping Festival, August 18-21, 2011
It’s like a Jewlicious Festival, but with horses.

Grassroots Organizing Summit, August 16-18, 2011
Learn how to change the world from the grassroots up with experts in branding, marketing, social media, video, organizing, event planning and more.

WHERE: Brandeis Bardin Campus, Simi Valley, CA
WHO: Jewish young adults 18+
COST: $99 and up. (Scholarships available on first come, first serve, basis)

Video ©Moshe Bookstein| Photos ©David Abitbol)
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Made Possible by Major Sponsorship From The Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles and the Valley Alliance Of The Jewish Federation Of Great Los Angeles, The Stanley And Joyce Black Family Foundation.

Sponsor and partner list in formation- Masa Israel, Birthright NEXT LA, Jews For Judaism, Beach Hillel, SoCal JSS, San Diego Jewish Federation, Jewish Free Loan Association, Nefesh B’ Nefesh, American Jewish University, Jimena

The newest part of the lineup is composer, singer/songwriter Josh Kramon. Kramon’s TV credits include composing the themes and scores for network shows such as UPN’s critically acclaimed Veronica Mars, ABC’s Cupid, October Road and Big Shots, MTV’s Making the Band and, most recently, the noir-ish ‘40s jazzy main title song to Starz’ Party Down.

Headliners for Tuesday’s tribute to the rising folk-rock revival led by Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zero’s is rising star Yael Mayer, back up by Dov Rosenblatt (Blue Fringe) and his newest collaboration called The Wellsprings and Lauren Barth.

Headliner for Wednesday is HYIM, an award winning singer/songwriter, pianist, poet, and freedom fighter from the Bay Area, bringing the funk and fun. He is backed up by Josh Kramon and LA’s coolest Klezmer band called Klezmer Juice. Klezmer Juice is vibrant Yiddish soul imbued with musical influences both old and new from around the world.

Tickets are on sale and limited and start at $10 for one night. Through Sunday Night, purchase your 2 day pass for only $15.

Major sponsors include Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles and Asahi Beer.

JEWNFEST TICKETS

Both Nights $15.00 Tu. Jewn 14 $10.00 We. Jewn 15 $10.00

 

Join Jewlicious, JConnectLA and partners Haichal Moshe and hundreds of young Jews for bonfires, music, and games for the 8th Annual Massive 4xBonfire and Lag Ba’Omer festivities Bring your beach balls, footballs, racquets, sun-tan lotion, towels, surfboards, guitars, tambourines, bongos, saxophones, fiddles, drums for the drum circle, SPOONS (etc, you get the picture) so that we can jam and play together, around the fire, under the stars, on the beach, singing and yelling and mingling and mixing — does it get much better?

This event is completely FREE starting at 6, til the beach closes at 10.

There will be PLENTY of delicious food, including a cash BBQ, and a special appearance by LA’s only kosher schnitzel food truck, the Schnitzel Wagon!

MAKE SURE TO RSVP — SO YOU WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE EXACT PARTY LOCATION ON THE BEACH

We’ll send out a Facebook message w/ info of where EXACTLY we’ll be on the beach the day of so that you’ll know where to find us.

This two-night musical journey is put together by the team behind the award-winning Jewlicious Festival, which started in 2005 promoting independent rising stars with great success. Jewnfest’s first evening will be dedicated to sounds of the rising indie folk-rock revival made huge by Mumford & Sons. The second evening will be a high energy evening of local musical wizards.

Featured artists for Jewnfest include Independent Music Award Nominee Hyim , rising Indie Music sensation, Yael Meyer, and The Wellspring, fronted by Blue Fringe’s Dov Rosenblatt , passion & latin flavor of Klezmer Juice, and rising indie star Lauren Barth.[ more artists to be announced soon].

Tickets for Jewnfest can be purchased online or at the door, space permitting. Pre-sale tickets are $10 per night,or 2 nights for $15. Doors open at 7pm, with music from 8-11pm each evening. The Mint is located at 6010 W Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035. The shows are for adults 18+. Support for Jewnfest comes from The Jewish Community Foundation Los Angeles, Asahi Beer and JConnect.

JEWNFEST TICKETS

Both Nights $15.00 Tu. Jewn 14 $10.00 We. Jewn 15 $10.00

 

CAMP JEWLICIOUS TICKETS CLICK HERE

FEATURED ARTISTS AT JEWNFEST

HYIM

HYIM’s music is pop/rock world fusion with a twist of urban flavor, and sounds like Coldplay, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Manu Chao and Dave Matthews. His music influences include Bob Marley, Peter Gabriel, Chopin, Bob Dylan, Chris Martin and his Dad. Born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, CA, HYIM is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, producer, pianist, performer, poet and activist. He is the next generation’s music “fusionisto,” and was called by the San Francisco Chronicle “a formidable talent…spellbinding.” HYIM began playing piano at age three and studied sitar in India, clave in Cuba, and classical guitar in New Zealand. He also studied Turkish rhythms, Persian poetry, and the Torah, and he “blends the rhythms of the world as chariots for his song.” His solo performances command the stage with a major party vibe, and he has performed at numerous charitable events around the world. Currently, he is nominated for the Oakland Soul Award at the 5th Annual Oakland Indie Awards. Sample some tracks and see what all the fuss is about at www.hyimvibe.com.

LAUREN BARTH

Lauren Barth is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist currently living and creating out of Oakland, California. The California native performs intimate folk songs, country songs, and tunes in the traditional American style. She is currently playing mandolin, guitar, and singing in a folk-americana quartet called Grandville based out of San Francisco, CA. This lover of Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, The Grateful Dead and Joni Mitchell can be seen pickin’ tunes from New Orleans to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Gustavo Bulgach of Klezmer Juice

Klezmer Juice

Klezmer Juice is the real thing – vibrant Yiddish soul combined with youth and musical style. Bringing together some of L.A.’s finest musicians from all walks of life. While many of us associate this music with European immigration to the United States, Jews at the turn of the century were settling all parts of the Americas, and they and their descendents have a rich history in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and many other Latin American countries. Klezmer Juice bandleader and clarinet player Gustavo Bulgach was born and raised in one such community in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A part of the large and active Jewish community there, he learned Klezmer music from his family at a young age. Inspired by the religious and secular life of the Argentine community, Bulgach, who now lives in Los Angeles, has traveled around the globe, finding that Klezmer music is the “soundtrack of the Diaspora.” Bulgach has managed to forge a new klezmer sound with one ear to tradition and the other locked on the now.

The Wellspring

Yael Meyer and her band

LA JEWISH FILM FEST 5/5-5/12
Check out May 9th SoCalled in CONCERT after the screening of The Socalled Film. If you need free tickets – Birthright Next LA is buying. Email marissa.jewlicious@gmail.com if you want free seats at the show – hurry space is limited!

CELEBRATING CREATIVITY 5/12
Join us and our friends @ ZEEK as we celebrate Jewish Arts and Culture in Southern California at a Launch Party for their Spring 2011 issue of ZEEK Magazine: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, in which Jewlicious is being featured! Enjoy live acoustic guitar with Evyn Charles, plus kosher food and drink, and there’s no cost to get in! The event is being held in Culver City from 7-10pm on Thursday, 5/12. For RSVP and all other info, click here: http://tinyurl.com/zeekmag

HIP HOP SALUTE TO ISRAEL 5/14
Come celebrate the independence of Israel in a way LA has never experienced it before — Israel beats and the LA Streets. Team Kosha, Oy Vey LA, and JConnectLA present “A Yom Haatzmaut Hip Hop Salute to Israel”. LA is the largest Israeli ex-pat community in the world so Israel’s Birthday is a big deal.
Show is Saturday Night 5/14 Doors @ 9, Show @ 10
LOCATION: Central SAPC, 14th and Santa Monica in Santa Monica
HOW: $5 at the door, 21+
LINE-UP: Kosha Dillz, DJ Ethos, Verbs, Foci, Brody, Djookroo, Shane Eli, Jess the Facts w/ AC the Program Director, E-train (Chicago)

COME ON BABY LIGHT MY FIRE! 5/22
Annual Massive JConnectLA LAg’ BOmer Beach Bonfire & BBQ, Sunday, 6-10pm, May 22, head on down to Dockweiler Beach in Playa del Rey for bonfires, jamming, and games! http://j.mp/iBhphA

LEARN TO LIVE IN LOVE: STARTS 5/18
Rabbi Yonah’s “Secrets of Successful Relationships Class” is starting up again! The series takes place Wednesdays, from 8-10pm, on 5/18, 5/25, and 6/1, and also includes a one-on-one session with R’Yonah per couple! For all the details on cost, scholarships, and applications, go to:http://tinyurl.com/RYclass

In the time since the first Stubb’s album, Matisyahu has sprouted his wings and built a musical ecosystem way beyond anything that we could have imagined.

I have the privilege to be closely following Matisyahu, going to his shows, and experiencing his musical growth and journey. Even with front-row seat, I could have predicted how amazing this album would be. It’s not a greatest hits album, it’s not a nostalgia or revival album, its a shot across the bow of cookie-cutter corporate sameness and predictable genre-locked tonality. It’s a revolutionary album. Dub Trio and Matisyahu are brilliant, aerobic, agile, free flowing across the sky of sound and expressions. Live At Stubb’s 2 is the most compelling album of his career.

But you cannot listen to it once on little headphones or a laptop speaker system. To full appreciate Stubb’s 2 you need massive sound, three or more listenings, an an open mind. If you can line that up, your musical world will be totally grateful.

Gone are the soft reggae lines, the linear, the expected. Matisyahu’s sound is more intense, holistic, and full of unexpected twists, turns, and flips. Just try to catch your breath.

Matisyahu will be doing a massive tour this summer, starting next month in Alabama at Hang Out Festival. In addition to downloading Stubbs 2, hopefully you will have a chance to catch this incredible performer soon.

PS- We wish Tahlia and Matisyahu a hearty Mazal Tov on the birth of a baby boy!

Thanks to Camp Jewlicious alumni, Wes Pinkam (also the bad boy director at Yiddishkeit LA), and Rose Salem (Sachler School of Medicine) they are hosting a pot-luck, Shabbat Lunch, complete with kiddush, challahs, and Shabbos vibes. Bring your food, drink, and hang out under the canopies.

If you are one of the lucky 80,000+ people with tickets to this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music Festival, get your Shabbos on and join them at Shabbat Tent.

Shabbat Tent has the challah! Join them for pot luck shabbat lunch at noon, Saturday @ Shabbat tent – located i: Car Camping lot 10, about 200 yards from the bathrooms. Look for the flying fish!
Lost? Need to find them? Call Wes 407-2-GetWes (407) 243-8937