Iron Lion Zion - Shabbat Shalom!

Bob Marley's birthday falls out on Shabbat (Saturday, February 6th) this year. Slip into Shabbat Parshas Yitro with Bob Marley and David Grisman, Andy Statman and Jerry Garcia. It's raining, cold and cloud-covered here in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Many of us are hunkering down at least for the night in view of weather and such - and some of us have must-attend simchas for which we must brave weather both foul and fair. May our moods be fair even if the weather may feel foul to some - but to those who truly love Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalyim in particular, the damp cold never felt so sweet, as it brings cleansed air, drink to the parched ground and promises of brachas to come. May the Torah flow like the waters from heaven above - Shabbat Shalom to everyone far and near from Radio Free Nachlaot, Your World-Wide Neighborhood Radio Station.

Shlomo and Nina

Shlomo said that Nina said that there are only two people that have rhythm!

Let's head to Shabbos with a combo of performances by Nina Simone and Shlomo Carlebach - recorded at the Village Gate -plus Shlomo Torah to boot!!

Right Now - 1:00 AM , and again Friday at Noon --

Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos

Cookin' with Steve has been on a low - flame this evening, but I think we're starting to boil a bit -after all, it's Thursday Night, and time to prepare for Shabbos -- so, let's just see where we go -
Good Shabbos, everybody!

Gevaldt, it's Moishe & Lorelai LIVE On-Air Today - Mamash, The Highest!

"The Decemberists" (as Rabbi Chaim Richman likes to call us) are back in business! Yes, our beloved friend Rabbi Moishe Pesach Geller is freshly arrived from a 4+ month stint in Schmutz L'Eretz (California, specifically) and he'll be LIVE IN-STUDIO with Lorelai, today at 3:00 pm - right here! You can be sure when you get two like-minded Sagittarians together, add merriment, music and a microphone it will make for some world-class radio fun. When Steve and Lorelai started Radio Free Nachlaot, this is exactly the kind of thing they dreamed about - "playing radio" with our friends,  family, loved ones, teachers, musicians, healers, and all the amazing personalities we know and love here in Jerusalem! We've been privilege to hang out on-air with so many amazing people - Harvey Milstein, Liebe Schulman, Oneg Shemesh, Rabbi Chaim Richman, Betzalel Phillip Edwards, Moshe Newman, Leah & Rena, Shulie and her Abba ...This is what we call Our Dream Come True.

Lots of Rain Music today continuing through this afternoon's LIVE with Moishe & Lorelai Show - then after that, stay tuned for the rest of today's schedule - and tonight STEVE LEVINE takes over with a very, very VERY special edition of his Cookin' for Erev Shabbos Show!

The Day The Music Died

February 3rd, 1959 - "The Day The Music Died" - sent Lorelai musing about musicians who died in airplane (or helicopter) crashes on their way to gigs. The list is somewhat staggering ... Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding, Aaliyah, Jim Croche, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Patsy Cline, John Denver, Glenn Miller ... all represented in one way or another this morning on our "Morning Dew for the Morning Jew" Show. 

Does airborne transportation have a particularly inherit vortex-like quality for the young and talented? Is there a reason their spirits left their bodies when they were flying, Icarus-like, so close to the Sun? We can't answer these questions, only pause to remember and enjoy the fruits of their lives - the music they left behind. The creative urge is how we mere humans are the most G*d-like, and how we grasp for immortality while still strutting & fretting our hour upon the stage of life. 

Legendary concert promoter and impresario Bill Graham also lost his life while airborne - in a helicopter crash we're not entirely sure wasn't engineered by Dark Powers who wanted to stop him from testifying before Congress on the subject of Corporate concert ticket monopolies - and in tribute to him we're playing a lot of music later tonight from The Byrds and The Grateful Dead. 

Today's Torah Schedule:

1pm and 5:45pm - Rabbi Betzalel Phillip Edwards' Series on the Piasetzner Rebbe continues

3pm - Rabbi Chaim Richman's Series on The Moshiach and The Holy Temple (Part 3) continues

6pm - Rabbi Chaim Richman's Parsha Shavua - Yitro

Today's Music Schedule:

8:30am - 1pm "Morning Dew for the Morning Jew" Show - will be playing Fleetwood Mac "Rumors" Album in its entirety during the 12:00 Noon - 1pm hour

1pm - 6pm "Israeli Soul" - it's a musical combina! We start with "Bo'i Kallah" - Sephardi Tunes and Kurdi music (thanks Aaron Haroon Hai for the compilation) then Aharit HaYamim, Ehud Banai, Semantra and The Moshav Band.

6pm - Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"

8pm - The Byrds Live at The Fillmore 1969, followed by Sweetheart of The Rodeo

10pm - The Grateful Dead Golden Hall Community Concourse, San Diego (1970), followed by the PERRO Sessions (Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra) and The Dead 1968 Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco.

Genius Loves Company

February 2nd may be famous for being Groundhog Day, but at Radio Free Nachlaot we're celebrating the birthdays of two legends - one of whom is living and the other one who is technically "dead" but whose ideas, characters, philosophy and raw spirit lives on far past her "expiration date."  This morning on Lorelai's "Morning Dew for the Morning Jew" Show we were treated to an entire long set of interviews, music and sound clips dedicated to the 105th birthday of philosopher / author / misunderstood female Ayn Rand. Born 105 years ago today to an assimilated Jewish family in St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Ayn Rand suffered the double indignities of being smarter than anyone else in the room (no matter where the room was or who was in the room) and subjected to the small-mindedness of "Muggles" (mere mortals) who neither cared to think for themselves nor allow those more qualified to think for them. After escaping Communist Russia & landing in the U.S. without a single word of English nor a kopeck to her name, she went on to become a screenwriter, best-selling author and living legend. "Atlas Shrugged" has sold more copies of any other book in publishing history except for The Bible. Think about THAT!

Conversely, it's also the birthday of musical legend Graham Nash. A founding member of Crosby Stills Nash (and Young), Graham Nash has given the world a musical legacy of beauty, grace, pain, exaltation and spiritual transcendence sure to outlast his own lifetime (it should be a long, healthy one). Plus, he was Joni Mitchell's boyfriend during their mutual youth - which sends him off the cool-meter, in our book.

Today's Torah Schedule:

1:00 pm & 5:45pm - Rav Betzalel Phillip Edwards series on the Piasetzner Rebbe continues

4:45 pm & 8:00pm - Rabbi Chaim Richman's Parsha Shavua - YITRO, baby! Can't believe we're already in Yitro again!

Today's Music Schedule:

1pm - 6pm "Israeli Soul" features Oneg Shemesh and RebbeSoul (Bruce Burger) BOTH of whom are playing TONIGHT in Jerusalem at the Canaan Bar (15 Shamai Street in Jerusalem) Show starts at 9:30pm - Bruce is playing with one of our favorite bands, HaMakor, and Oneg is opening for them. It WILL be a Gevaldt!

6pm - Bluegrass Sessions! Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Vince Gill - unbelievable!

8pm - CROSBY STILLS & NASH - THE ENTIRE FREAKING 4-DISC DISCOGRAPHY! Should run until almost 1am ... enjoy!

Music Monday - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert Tonight!

Monday, Monday ... a new week, a new Calendar month, new attitude, new music!

The Monday Edition of Lorelai's "Morning Dew for the Morning Jew" Show zig-zagged all over the place from Tony Bennett Duets to The Waitresses, Joe Cocker, Tracy Chapman, Rickie Lee Jones, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Talking Heads, Cheryl Crowe, Stevie Wonder, The Allman Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, The Dave Matthews Band, Gilbert & Sullivan, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Creedence Clearwater Revival - and capping it all off, just because we're feeling a little bit crazy ...we're featuring the extended version of Elton John's "Madman Across The Water" album in its entirety during the 12:00 Noon hour. It still sounds fantastic - in fact, better than ever.

Today's Torah Schedule:

1pm, 5:45pm - Rabbi Betzalel Phillip Edwards on the Piasetzner Rebbe's "Jewish Meditations on The Exodus"
3pm, 7:45pm - Rav Sholom Brodt on Reb Shlomo's Teachings on Emotional and Spiritual Healing.
4pm - Rebbetzen Rena Richman's "Bat Melech" Series continues with "Yosef and His Brothers," Part 2
5:15pm - Rabbi Chaim Richman's Introduction to the Priestly Garments - What to Wear to the Holy Temple

Today's Music Schedule:
 
1pm - 6pm "Israeli Soul" Afternoon -it's Kol Isha Day! Meirah Miriam Bet-Dovid and The Gan Eden Project, Laura (Liebe) Schulman's "Pretty Little Dog" Old-Time Banjo CD, and HaBanot Nechama carry us through the afternoon.
6pm - Joni Mitchell "Miles of Aisles" Concert Album
8pm - The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert! The one you've been waiting for - extraordinary performances by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Jeff Beck, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkle, David Crosby, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, Lou Reed, Ray Davies, U2, Buddy Guy, Bruce Springsteen and much, much more - this is the night to stay close to your computer & listen to music!