You've Gotta Have HEARTT

The Beatles say: All you need is love. The Broadway Musical "Damn Yankees" reminds us: You've gotta have heart.

Radio Free Nachlaot says: screw SOPA and PIPA - all we really need  is HEARTT - "HELPING ENSURE ARTISTS RIGHTS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY."

Hear all about it on Lorelai's "What's New With Lorelai" Newsy News Show from today ( CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO THE SHOW). The big news on the Internet is that the U.S. Congress is considering "anti-piracy" legislation (called SOPA for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and  PIPA, unintelligibly named for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 ) which would in effect put the burden of anti-piracy, royalty regulation and intellectual copyright protection on web site owners instead of where it belongs - which, according to Lorelai, is upon the ISP providers.

As of December 20th, 2011, there were a total of 6,930,055,154 Internet users in the whole world. You can't use the Internet without an ISP provider. The U.S. Congress needs to scrap their SOPA and PIPA legislation and adopt MY plan (which Lorelai first proposed at a NARAS conference in 2004) called HEARTT - "Helping Ensure Artist's Rights Through Technology." ISP providers would charge each Internet user .01 per month, creating a cash pool out of which all royalties would be paid. Do the math, people. ISP providers NOT web site owners should be responsible for royalty payments.

At the time Lorelai proposed this idea to NARAS (the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) a.k.a. the "Grammy" people - they thought it was a great idea but also thought that unless the Government pressured ISP providers to do this it wouldn't be done and that "no one wanted to pay more for their internet." She pointed out that no one would have to pay more for their internet - only the ISP providers would have to take a TINY bit LESS profit from each internet user to contribute to the cash pool. Being Capitalists they thought it would amount to "higher taxes," She said "How can charging AT THE MOST .10 more a month (since by my calculations they only needed .01 cents but knowing Capitalism they'd need to charge .10 to be able to reap .01) be considered 'higher taxes'?" and then at that point the conversation turned to which cocktail should be ordered next.

As Lorelai said in her Facebook rant on the subject: Make mine a COSMOPOLITAN please - l'chaim, Neil Portnow, you could have been a contender.

But it's not too late. Strike while the iron is hot - maybe HEARTT was just an idea ahead of its time. It's 2012 people - wake up! Stop SOPA and PIPA - and demand HEARTT!


Today on the Final Vinyl Show - a "Simon Sandwich!" It's Paul Simon's "There Goes Rhymin' Simon," followed by Bonnie Raitt's "Give It Up" and Carly Simon's "No Secrets." (Or does that make it a Raitt sandwich? One man's ceiling is another man's floor - whatever!


On Israeli Soul Afternoon we'll hear "Ha Orot" - Rav Kook Jazz Poetry by Greg Wall and the Modern Prophets with Reb Itzchak Marmostein (Itzchak Evan Shays), John Zorn "The Jewish Jazz Genius," Reb Shlomo, soothing spiritual piano music from Shoshanna Shoshanna, 1001 Nights by Moroccan Spirit and then some great world music by Sanjay Mishtra and Jerry Garcia.


At 7pm tonight Rabbi Chaim Richman brings us the Parsha Shavua - "Vaera" - and at 8pm we'll hear Rav Ozer Bergman's Rebbe Nachman Thursday Night Rebbe Nachman Chebura, and then just for fun we'll hear the ENTIRE recording of the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert from Madison Square Garden in 1992 featuring John Cougar Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Eddie Vedder, Tracie Chapman, Willie Nelson, Johnny Winter, Ronnie Wood, Ritchie Havens, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Roseanne Cash, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, The Band, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Chrissie Hynde and many, many more - in other words: EVERYBODY. 


Followed by - you guessed it! Steve Levine's "COOKIN' FOR SHABBOS!"
Gevaldt, it's Thursday - that can only mean Shabbos is coming! Shabbos is coming, thank G*d!!!

Maya's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Tonight, 9pm Israel Time!

"OK Rockstars..." that's right, coming down upon us at long last - our beloved DJ MAYA is back tonight (after a bit of an absence due to IMMENSE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WAY BEYOND OUR CONTROL) and she's ready to rock the Casbah! Maya's got great songs for the night - the music just keeps getting better and better - and believe us, when she finally gets in front of the microphone again you're going to hear one happy girl DJ! 9pm - 11pm Jerusalem time - "Wake up everybody, Maya's in The House!"

The Day The Music Died???

Did you hear Lorelai playing "American Pie" earlier this evening? The reference point was - "The Day The Music Died" - and we're talking about Steve Levine's computer! Folks, Radio Free Nachlaot's "Abba," Steve Levine, has NO COMPUTER due to the horrible and painful computer death last week - that means no programming from Undisclosed Studio B (including Brian, Maya, Homegrown, Cookin' for Shabbos, etc.) until we get some help! WE NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS to buy a new broadcast laptop for Steve! Look for the PayPal icon on our web page www.radiofreenachlaot.com and please give generously! We're looking to raise about $800 and/or 3000NIS - that's what it's going to take - won't you help RFN in our time of need???

Why Is This Coming Shmita Different From All Other Shmitas?

Shmita - the laws of how the Land of Israel is to be allowed to rest from it's cycle of productivity - is the subject of tonight's "Sunday Night Live" Show. Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein of the Diaspora Yeshiva / Mt. Zion gives a fascinating interview on the subject of "Why is this Shmita different from all other Shmitas?" 8pm Jerusalem time tonight. Hint - by the time the next Shmita cycle (which begins three Rosh HaShanahs from now) comes, the majority of Jews in the world will (probably, according to demographers, b'ezrat HaShem), be living in Eretz Yisrael. That's the game-changer with eternal consequences - and something we must make a national decision about NOW, before the 6th year of the Shmita cycle, so we can guarantee a bumper crop and have the resources to carry us through the Torah-mandated Shmita year (the 7th year of the cycle). Complicated? Maybe. Important? Well, consider this - it was because the Jewish People DIDN'T keep Shmita properly that they had to spend 70 years in Babylon. So it's not just a tangential subject - it has immense national and spiritual implications for the Jewish People, and the world at large. Listen to Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein at 8pm tonight on Radio Free Nachlaot and find out more!

Man Plans, G*d Laughs, Sometimes We Cry ... But The Show Must Go On!

"That's Show Biz," folks! Man plans, G*d laughs, and sometimes we cry. Like last night, when Steve Levine's laptop died a horrible and painful death after two years and two months of continual brave cool runnings on behalf of Radio Free Nachlaot. Baruch Dayan haEmes.

Yes it WAS an elderly laptop (a 2007 HP), and it WAS on it's last leg, but really, did we need this now? OK, so "stuff happens," as we've already proven. So we turn to you, our Radio Free Nachlaot friends and family, for help and support. We need a new laptop for Steve! See the PayPal icon on this web page? Please throw some spare change our way. We need to raise somewhere between $800 and / or 3000NIS to replace his machine - meanwhile, the entire station is running ONLY on Lorelai's laptop. That's a lot of strain and drain on one machine. So thanks for the help - we get by with a little help from our friends!

Today on Radio Free Nachlaot - the Wednesday Musical Cholent Mix from 8am - 10am (do you dig the Deep Purple we played? Gevaldt, it's been a long time since we heard "Book of Taliesyn!"). From 10am - 11am, "What's New With Lorelai" (CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO TODAY'S EPISODE) in which she discusses the 9,000 U.S. Troops being sent to Israel, Saudi Arabia vs. Israel in the credit card hackers smackdown, Israel prepares to shelter Syrian refugees (yes, really!) and of course, the big news - "Moderate Pot Smoking 'Not Bad' For Lungs" - you do the math, people. If you take the advice of Sublime and smoke two joints in the morning, smoke two joints at night, smoke two joints in the afternoon because it makes you feel allright - that's 6 joints a day X 6 days a week (NO smoking on Shabbos!!!), that's about 1,872 joints per year. "Good" for the lungs? OK, that must be medical news all right! :)

On the Bluesy Blues Show  (11am - 12N) we're featuring Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987) followed by the Jazzy Jazz Show (12N - 1pm) it's Bob James "Foreplay" (it's always a good time for foreplay, right?)

Israeli Soul Afternoon )1pm - 6pm) today includes music from In Lakesh (that's Didgeri Trance Music, folks!), selections from our friend Jonty Zweibner's "One Song World" project including music from Schlock Rock, JudaBlue, HaMakor, Yosef Daniel, Shtar, Ben Draiman and Gershon Verboda. We'll also hear from the Kabbalah Dream Orchestra, the Kirtan Rabbi and Klezmorim. 

A special Torah treat from Rav Avraham Sutton at 6:30pm - more on his series about Prophecy ("The Possibility of Differentiation") and at 7pm we'll hear Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven's "Temple Talk" on Parsha Shemot - yep, we're going down into Egypt, but you know what that means? It means our redemption is nearer than it was yesterday!

After that - well, who knows? We were supposed to have Maya tonight at 9pm but with a dead laptop in Studio B, we can't promise anything. We DO promise that, with G*d's help (if He can stop laughing long enough!) the show WILL go on. With your help, we'll replace Steve's laptop and the show will go on "as usual." If you can help with a contribution - we thank you VERY SINCERELY AND HEARTILY, just go to the PayPal icon on our web page and make a donation - the radio station you save may be your own!!!

Break On Through To The Other Side

Feeling stuck? Got the mid-month blues yet? It's time to break on through to the other side, yeah!

It's Tevet, Capricorn - got to keep focused! As Reb Shlomo's twin brother Rabbi Eli Chaim zt"l once said about Tevet - YOU'VE GOT TO BE LIKE A HORSE WEARING BLINDERS, YOU'VE GOT TO IGNORE DISTRACTIONS, YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP FOCUSED, MAMASH!

Focus on this, people! Tuesday on Radio Free Nachlaot - Tuesday Morning Musical Cholent Mix is yummy! 8am - 10am this morning (with a heavy flavor of "love songs"), followed by "What's New With Lorelai" (if you missed it, CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TODAY'S SHOW in which she discussed Obama's alleged readiness to use military force against a nuclear Iran, IDF Hesder Yeshiva students who just CAN'T STAND to hear women singing at military ceremonies (even when they're really off-key and terrible sounding), the fact that 90% of organized terrorism on the Internet takes place in Social Media environments - "are we enablers?," and finally - Saturn! The planet! Why and how Saturn turns into Darth Vader from Star Wars this year!).

On the Final Vinyl Show (11am - 1pm) we're listening to The Beatles "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Steely Dan's "Can't Buy a Thrill" and Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks." Classic vinyl, yo!

Today on "Israeli Soul Afternoon" (1pm - 6pm) we'll hear Noah Lubin's "Leaving Egypt," Louis Armstrong "Louis and the Good Book," music from Simply Tsfat, Shlomo Katz, Andy Statman's "The Hidden Light" and Raz Hartman.

6pm - Benzion Lehrer's "Developing Your Neshama Through the Jewish Year" - LIVE from Tzfat's Returning Light Healing Center!
Then we'll throw the stream back to Steve in Jerusalem ...
7pm - HOMEGROWN HOUR!
8pm-ish (after Homegrown) - it's the Newgrass/Bluegrass Show!
9:30-ish - Steve Levine's "That's Rock 'N' Roll" Show!
...and then, who knows? Steve will be driving the musical bus, stay tuned for what happens during the "overnights" - he'll help us break on through ... as The Doors say:
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah!

Full Moon Monday

Whoo-Hooo, it's Full Moon Monday - the Full Moon in the Sign of Cancer has us feeling "looney," but that doesn't mean we're going to be playing looney tunes - oh no, it doesn't! Everything we're doing today is perfectly in-sync - from Lorelai's New News Show ("What's New With Lorelai") - 10am - 11am in the morning (CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO TODAY'S EDITION), to the Final Vinyl Show from 11am - 1pm today, featuring David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" (sorry we missed your birthday yesterday Mr. Starman, we're making up for it today) followed by The Who's "TOMMY" - and then on Israeli Soul Afternoon (1pm - 6pm) we're featuring music from Jon Samuel Nelson, Eitan Katz, Aharit HaYamim, the Bat Ayin Band, Beit HaBubot and HaBanot Nechama.
Switching gears for the evening hours - at 6pm we'll be saying "Happy Birthday" to Joan Baez, who turns 71 years old today! We'll play "Joan Baez in Concert" from 1963, but the truth is her voice is still as pure and beautiful at 71 as it was when she was 21.
Tonight on the "Not For Drag Queens Only Show Tunes Show" at 7pm we'll be listening to the Broadway cast recording of "GYPSY" (l'kavod "Mama Rose" - more on the Full Moon in Cancer theme about "mothers!") followed at 8pm (on the radio side) by BRIAN BLUM'S BRAINWAVES.
On the video side, we'll be broadcasting Rabbi Avraham Aryeh Trugman's Parsha Shavua live on video on our web page from 8 - 10pm.
What's after that? You'll have to ask Steve - he's driving the bus tonight! Meanwhile - have a nice Full Moon Monday, and be nice to your mother!