Shavua Tov, Chodesh Tov, Happy Anniversary to US!

It's a new week. It's a new month. It's a new year.
Yes, Radio Free Nachlaot has made it to Year 2 -- not to be confused with Season 2 which we started right after Tisha B'av.
It's our birthday - or anniversary, or the anniversary of our birthday -- no matter how you say it, we're celebrating the completion of Year 1 and the beginning of Year 2.
Of course, it's Motzoei Shabbos, and Shlomo and Melave Malke come first -- you know, "tadir v'ayno tadir, tadir kodem" -- which means the regular does come before the special -- but the Special will certain influence the regular -- just you wait and see!!!

...and remember, tomorrow night 6-11, our Birthday Party at Asiya Media Studios --
for you in Yerushalayim and the surrounding area -- it's at #30 Rehov Beit Hadfoos, bldg 2, unit 52 -- come and party with us -- and for you not in physical proximity -- you can join us and listen on Radio Free Nachlaot.

It's a fund raiser.
It's a big Thank You.
It's going to be a lot of fun.

....and if you think year one has been a trip, just wait for year 2!!!!!! :)

It's Shabbos, It's Shabbos, Shabbos is coming, again!

Good Shabbos Everybody.
After Lady and the Tramp, the afternoon finds us dancing with Shlomo all the way till the sirens blow -- and who will his dancing partners be? check - in and check us out!
Remember, M"S - after 7 - Melave Malke Meets Saturday Night -- Let's begin the 3rd week of Shlomo with some friends? some music, and some Torah and get ready for our 1st Anniversary Birthday Celebration on Sunday Night!
Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos!
C ya on the Radio!

It's comin' on Shabbos....

Hey Folks, guess what? Yup, Yup, Yup - It's almost Shabbos again! Now 'round here that means only one thing - It's time for "Cookin' for Shabbos" - our weekly show to help you prepare for Shabbos. You do the cookin', we'll provide the soundtrack and the good-vibes, because we know how much chicken, soup, cholent, vegetable-lasagne, herring and whiskey need good-vibes!!
(OK, you caught me, we don't cook herring and whiskey - but...)
I've got Western Music on my mind, some good-ole country sittin' and a pickin' on my mind, not to mention all the brand new Rock and Roll we've been playin' - so what I suggest is that you lock us in on your internet dial, and let us roll and rock our way, all the way to Shabbos.
...And lest you might forget -- scroll down, and read all about our BIRTHDAY PARTY - coming up on Sunday night, 11/7/10 -- hey, 11 and 7 in the middle east that would be 7/11/10 --
hey, maybe it's our lucky day!!!!
C Ya on the Radio!

It's Almost Our Birthday . . . THE BIG ONE!

It's almost our birthday - doesn't it seem like just yesterday that we began?

The reason it seems like just yesterday that we launched Radio Free Nachlaot is because, well, it almost WAS yesterday!

In a world where a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day, it's hard to tell if we've been on the air (OK we're not really on the AIR per se, we're on the VIRTUAL air via Internet Radio) for a day, a year or forever. Sometimes it feels like all three simultaneously!

Nevertheless, according to the mundane usage of chronology, it's almost our 1-year Birthday, or as we say in California: THE BIG ONE. (In Hebrew would that be "Echad Gadol" - ?)

We launched this "Science Project" Erev Rosh Chodesh Kislev, 5770 ... and lo & behold, Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5771 is right around the corner, literally.
So we're having a PARTY. A birthday party! A fundraiser! A fundraising birthday party! AND YOU'RE INVITED!

Our friends and media content creation partners at Asiyah Media (a.k.a. "Holding the Sun" Productions) are lending us their fabulous studios for the party because it's going to be so much fun we shouldn't have it in a residential area!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH
6pm - 11pm
At the Asiyah Media Studios
Mercaz Sapir Building 2, Suite 52 (Top Floor) in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem (off of Kanfei Nesharim Street)

Bus lines that go to Kanfei Nesharim Street (the cross street is Bachi) - Bus Lines 20, 6, 74, 75, 15, 60 and 64.

FUNDRAISER: You'll be asked to give a donation to Radio Free Nachlaot - amount of which and currency/denominations to be determined by YOU. In exchange you'll receive a RAFFLE TICKET, and we'll be raffling off a GUEST DJ APPEARANCE on Radio Free Nachlaot!

Come on - you know you've always wanted to play DJ! Now you can win a Guest DJ spot with us!

We will be broadcasting LIVE from the party so if you're not in town you can listen to us live, AND our Asiyah Media friends (who are streaming video savants) will be streaming video of the party LIVE - we'll let you know where to view it (we think we might even be able to embed it into THIS very web page when the time comes!)

But if you ARE in Jerusalem - wouldn't you really rather be WITH us than watching us on streaming video? We hope you'll drop by for the festivities, to wish us a Happy Birthday, to drop a few shekels into the "kitty" and to drink a l'chaim with us ... Oh yeah that reminds me, if you are kind-hearted please BYOB!!!

Lorelai generally likes single malt scotch with names that start with "Glen", Steve likes Jack Daniels Silver Select (Duty-Free, baby!).

So ... about our programming - we had an AWESOME set of music this morning inspired by our children - some of whom have even presented us with playlists (Thanks Shulie and Chava Levine!) and others who just tell us what they like (Thanks Cameron Kude). We called that segment "Not For Old People Only." Of course we know we don't play music just for old people - after all, Maya is our token under-30 DJ, right? :) The good news is that we taught our children well - in addition to bands like Sublime, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, the Goo-Goo Dolls and the Posies we also heard Bob Dylan, Tom Waitts, Carly Simon and Van Morrison. We're not old - we're babies! We're only 1 year old!

At Noon today Dr. Liebe Schulman and Lorelai had a wonderful time on the Holy Healing Show. Maybe it was the influence of Scorpio this time of year, but the topic began with Shamanistic healing techniques, moved on to what to do if a soul leaves a body or an extra, unwanted soul enters a body, alternative consciousness-stimulating substances and their various healing usages, and winded up with a discourse on the secret healing properties of Frankincense and Myrrh. Check our DOWNLOAD PAGE to listen to the recording!

This afternoon on "Israeli Soul" we have Parsha Shavua "Toldot" from Rabbi Chaim Richman and Parsha Poetry by Chaya Kaplan-Lester, Nachlaot's Poetess-in-Residence at 2pm, "Light Unto The Nations: The Prayers that Bind" at 3:30pm, and Rav Ozer Bergman's Rebbe Nachman class from last week at 5pm, punctuated by music from the Kirtan Rabbi, Holly Shere's "Wild Earth Shebrew," Sasha Butterfly Rose "Creation Song" and healing piano from Shoshanna Shoshanna.

Which brings us to tonight - we'll be broadcasting Rav Ozer's Rebbe Nachman Thursday Night Chebura LIVE at 7:30pm, and then after that - Steve's Cooking for Shabbos Show.

Gevaldt, that means it's almost Shabbos - again! We've been around the circle once together - it's almost a year of weeks that have ended in Shabbos together - won't you join us Sunday Night for our Birthday Party? RSVP to us at radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com - we can't wait to see you!

Cafe Hafuch

Cafe Hafuch - "Upside-Down Coffee" - is what Israelis drink b'derech claal (normally), that is when they're not living in denial and ordering cappuccino, espresso or some other frothy drink.

All real Israelis know the truth - that we're living in an upside-down world. Our standard choice of caffeinated beverage (whose origins are rumored to have sprung from the pre-espresso days in Israel, where a little instant coffee was poured into milk) - all "Hafuch" drinks are a reversal of this method, a symbolic reversal of what was once the norm.

What to do when things are upside-down? Learn to walk on the ceiling, like Fred Astaire?

Speaking of politics (oh, were we?) we commemorated the results of yesterday's U.S. Election during our "Morning Dew" show with music from the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, and other artists who so expressively illustrate well-earned skepticism about the political system. "Meet the old boss - same as the new boss," says The Who - and they also say: "We won't get fooled again!"

Or will we? Are we freyers (suckers) or idealists, do we want to believe so badly that we'll believe anything at all?

At least we know we'll be getting some right-side-up Torah this afternoon - we'll hear Rabbi Chaim Richman's "Temple Talk" at 1pm, Parsha Shavua (Todelos) at 5pm, accompanied by the Parsha Poetry of Chaya Kaplan-Lester, and at 3pm we'll have Part 2 of Dov Laimon's series on Bereshis (that's "Genesis" to you non-Hebrew speakers).

In-between and framing all this great Torah will be music from Israeli artist David Ziv, our friend & Moshav Modiin resident rock star Aryeh Naftali, and our favorite American Jewish Garage Band Made Good: BLANKET STATEMENTSTEIN. Really worth listening to.

Tonight at 8pm we're playing our new "Not For Drag Queens Only" Showtunes Show, featuring MY FAIR LADY - the original London Cast Recording (Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison).

Eliza Doolittle,the heroine of My Fair Lady, certainly found herself in the world of Cafe Hafuch - an upside-down world where rigid class systems could be broken through simply with a change of accent, clothing and deportment. Of course it wasn't that simple at all - Eliza Doolittle was, in fact, a "Fair Lady" long before Henry Higgins got a hold of her and made her the subject of a bet and a science project. It only took the costume change, accent and lessons in table manners to make others see it as well.

Whether walking on the ceiling is a better way of adapting to an upside-down world than elocution lessons, only time will tell. If only elocution lessons also brought forth a truth-telling tongue from politicians ... ahh, now that would be something to talk about.

It's Tuesday, you know what that means, don't you?

Good Morning, Good Day, Good Night
Wherever you are, our schedule is: Maya in the Morning, and then we'll come at you from Studio B, and we'll fill you in as we go --
Let's just say it's New Music Tuesday - just wait till you find out what that means!!!!

(hint - some new/old Bruce, perhaps?)

Variations on a Theme

November 1st - should that worry us? Just because there's only 60 days left in the year known as 2010? Just because on the Hebrew Calendar we're rushing headlong into Kislev and it feels premature? Just because the cool-ish weather has only NOW hit Jerusalem and we're a little anxious about whether or not it will actually stay?

Gevaldt, as if there wasn't enough to worry about - let's let go of things we can't control (like the weather and the calendar, both secular and sacred) and let those worries fly away like little birds - straight into the sky, where they belong. As Rebbe Nachman says, "It's a very good thing to pour your heart out to G_d."

If you're having a hard time pouring your heart out, at least open your clenched fist and let go of what you're holding on to ... try a variation on the theme of your usual thoughts, it won't kill you and it may even help.

Today's Morning Dew for the Morning Jew show is the "Extended Play Version" due to our own internal "variation on a theme" scheduling issues - we'll be playing "morning music," then settle into some philosophical conundrums, no-exit escape routes and finally, reach a resolution - and helping us get there: the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, the Allman Brothers, Cat Stevens, Cheryl Crowe, Neil Young, Blanket Statementsein, Amy Winehouse, Sublime, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, George Harrison and more, so many more - that's what the "Morning Dew" Show is all about, weaving a mood, creating a storyline, telling your tales from the inside out. Not too much narration, but a whole lot of variation!

At 1pm we'll hear Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer's class from last week (Benzion should G-d willing be back with us at our normal time next Monday at 11am), and for our "Israeli Soul" Afternoon" we'll hear music from Reva l'Sheva, Yood, Aaron Razel, Aharit Hayamim, Benzion Lehrer, C Lanzbom and Noah Solomon, Chaim David and more - yes, that would be Yishai Fleisher's famous "Aliyah Revolution" album! We'll also hear music from Judablue, Ya'akov Yisrael (Jim Costello), Eden and Ehud Banai.

At 5pm we'll hear Rabbi Chaim Richman's latest "Light Unto the Nations: Prayers That Bind."

There's more, there's more ... but let's get through the day first, we'll be back later to tell you what's next - meanwhile - let go of those troubles and let them fly away like birds, won't you?
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