ZOT CHANUKAH!

It's Day 8 - "ZOT CHANUKAH" - all our lights are lit - what happens next?
What do we take away from this Chanukah season, what stays with us after all the lights finally go out?
We're playing Songs About Light all morning on the radio.
At 1pm we'll have a live in-studio visit from our friend HESHY ("The Hesh, Inc.") who is visiting Jerusalem and performing at the Off The Wall Comedy Basement (King George & Ben Yehuda) tonight (stop by and see his show, starts about 8pm).
At 7pm Brian Blum's BRAINWAVES is all about "darkness." Hmmm. Should be interesting, a contrast to his show last week which was all about light.
9pm - Maya's Music of the Night - she says "It's Threesome Night." We're not sure exactly what that means: like a triple-play? Three songs from each of her favorite bands? Songs about emotional triangulation?
It's all part of the process - light, darkness, conflict, resolution. Tevet (the month we've just begun) is all about Tikkun Anger - let's remember wherever anger is, the Presence of G*d isn't.
So let's keep calm. The best way we know how to do that is - hanging out with us on the radio!
It's the safest place we know!
Bring down the light, people. We've lit our candles, now let's BE THE LIGHT for everyone and everything around us.
Happy Zot Chanukah!

It's Mon-Day 6 into Night 7 of Chanuka, and it's Rosh Chodesh!

That's right everybody, today is not just any ordinary Monday. And we're going to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Teves and Day 6-night 7 of Chanuka with a lazy Monday Morning Music which will become a special edition of Israeli-Soul all afternoon featuring divrei Torah by Shlomo at 12:15, and by Rav Daniel at 4:00. We'll also play the entire new Shlomo Katz CD: "Live in Melbourne" right after Rav Daniel around 5:45, and then, tonight, December 26th between 8:00 and 10:00 PM we'll bring back our first Father-Son DJ team as we continue with our special Chanuka progamming and bring you:

Hanukkah - ROCK OF AGES with Mark and Ilai Lazar!

That's Right. Rock with Black Sabbath, Queen, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The

Byrds and more as the thematic scheme of the kosher “chag” is musically explored!

You're not going to want to miss a note!

So, Light my fire...baby

C Ya on the Radio!!!!

Chanuka and Rosh Chodesh Sameyach, Everybody!

It's Sunday Night which means it's time for

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE!

That's right, tonight, Live from Studio B, Steve and Lorelai and Benzion will be together from an undisclosed location deep in the heart of Nachalaot... so deep we can't even tell you where we are...and joining us for this 6th Night of Chanuka and the beginning of the 7th week of Shlomo will be Steve and Lorelai and Benzion. That's right - due to the unfortunate last minute cancellation of our previously scheduled guest, tonight Lorelai and Benzion will interview Steve.  He did know Shlomo, you know... Of course Benzion will play some music and we'll all carry on just like it was Sunday Night Live on the radio!.After all, it's Chanuka and we should be getting together and having a party - just like the man on the record says.

....and to continue with our special Chanuka progamming, tomorrow night:

Hanukkah -  ROCK OF AGES with Ilai and Mark Lazar!

Monday night December 26th from 8:00-10:00PM! 

Rock with Black Sabbath, Queen, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The

Byrds and more as the thematic scheme of the kosher “chag” is musically explored!

 Light my fire...baby!

Two Candles - Two Great DJ's Tonight on Radio Free Nachlaot

Two of our BRIGHTEST, most SHINY DJ's bring you their special gifts tonight on Radio Free Nachlaot! Brian Blum's BRAINWAVES at 7pm lights up the night with songs about light - and our DJ MAYA at 9pm brings you music to get you all glittery and sparkly. Light two candles tonight - listen to two great DJ's tonight - celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights tonight with us on Radio Free Nachlaot!

It's Erev Chanukah - Get Ready for 8 Crazy Wonderful Nights!

 We've got a GREAT "Erev Chanukah" Israeli Soul Afternoon for you on Radio Free Nachlaot- music from Shoshannah Piano, Seth Breitman, Sasson and Sasha Butterfly Rose, interspersed with special Chanukah Torahs recorded at Sulaam Yaakov Yeshiva in Nachlaot last year by Rabbis Aaron Razel, David Swidler, Gedalia Mason, Yehoshua Coren, Dovid Sperling, Adi Friedman, and Ami Silver - at 5pm we'll hear Rabbi Mottle Wolfe on "Chanukkah: the Art of Radical Amazement," and some great Chanukah music to listen to while you're watching your lights.  

At 6pm we'll bring you Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer's continuing series "Developing Your Neshama Through the Jewish Year" (with a special focus on Chanukah), at 7pm it's THE HOMEGROWN HOUR (did you send us your homegrown Chanukah songs yet? Email us at: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com already!), after Homegrown it's the Newgrass/Bluegrass Show, followed by Steve Levine's "That's Rock 'n' Roll" show - yay, Tuesday on RFN! Yay, Chanukah!

This little light of ours ... we're going to let it shine! Shine on with us all week long on RFN!

 

Everybody's Talking About ... HAIR

HAIR. Everybody's talking about it - sparked by the recent "Beardgate" incident last week. What happened? MATISYAHU, declaring "No more Chassidish Reggae Superstar!" shaved off his beard (and cut his hair and peyos as well, just for good measure).

The buzz on the Internet is astounding - hair, hair hair! What does it mean? Good Jew, bad Jew, no Jew, new Jew?

As Lorelai wrote on her Facebook page last week: "What is hair, why are we obsessed with it, why are we defined by it's length, visibility, style ... why should we or shouldn't we cut it, cover it, dye it, fry it, why we freak out when some ultra-visible person shaves their beard or changes their hairstyle, etc. As for me and my radio partner Steve Levine it's obvious by looking at us where we each hold - (Steve is ALLERGIC to the word "scissors" and as for me, I've only had one tiny trim in the last year and even that was traumatic - and now I'm facing impending marriage and the emotionally stressful decisions of how/why/when/what to do with my beloved "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" look)."

We're going to explore that question and more tonight at 7pm on the "Not for Drag Queens Only Show Tunes Show," we'll be featuring the full-length Broadway musical HAIR - followed by a discussion about what's REALLY going on with hair -  plus the audio of an interview Matisyahu did on WNYC shortly after the breaking of "Beardgate" which is very insightful into his mental and emotional state and why he shaved in the first place ... and more - right here on Radio Free Nachlaot.

Is it live, or is it

Sunday Night Live ?

Well, it is Sunday Night, and we will be "live" in Studio "B" to start off Week #6 of the 9 Weeks of Shlomo. Tonight Sunday Night Live features some "memories" from previous 9 Weeks of Shlomo interviews, a real, live interview with Rena Meriash-Levine and then, somewhere around 9:30  PM (Jslm time) we will do the one thing we can't do during the 9 Weeks of Shlomo: conduct a live interview with Shlomo.  Well, we have one on "tape" and that is what we'll hear. Shlomo on Shlomo. 

...now, let's not forget that it's almost Chanuka, so we may learn some Shlomo on Chanuka, as well.

It should be a great "live" evening, so why not join us!

C Ya on the Radio!